interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of … our theory. We show that a key parameter determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result … identifies a novel externality that can precipitate war: price-taking firms fail to internalize the impact of their extraction on …

shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …

overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National …

develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We examine the empirical relationship between the occurrence of interstate … to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We … decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the war on female labor supply and fertility in the decades following the … war. For the war generation of women, the high demand for female labor brought about by mobilization leads to an increase …

belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …