), but could render the eruption of war between member and non-member countries more likely (peace diversion). This paper is …-stage game with three competing importers, where fi rst, two of the countries decide on whether to initiate war against each … other, and subsequently, all three countries select their import tariffs. We show that PTAs produce both a "peace …

conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where … review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime institutions; and on the private sector in conflict. Future …

We present a version of Baliga and Sjöström’s (2012a) conflict games with two asymmetric players. The players …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other … nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict …

While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been … studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic …, with their effectiveness in curbing hostilities being greater in areas where conflict is active closer in time to the …

altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict …

-makers form, and what determines whether a conflict will arise? We study a network formation game between ex-ante symmetric … players in the laboratory to examine the dynamics of alliance formation and conflict evolution. A peaceful equilibrium yields …

in the shadow of arming and the threat of war. In this setting, we characterize the conditions under which peace arises … arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both … approaches depend on the states' military capacities, but have very different outcomes. War precludes the possibility of …