A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war, and …

having been given a first name that is synonymous with the leader(s) of the fascist Croatian state during World War II … predicts volunteering for army service in the 1991-1995 Croatian war of independence and dying during the conflict. Next, we … the evolution of nationalism and its intergenerational transmission across locations affected by extreme war …

fight and die in a war for national independence - using name choices corresponding to previous war leaders. Based on data …(s) of the Croatian state during World War II predicts volunteering for service in the 1991-1995 Croatian war of independence … first name choices to right-wing voting behavior in 2015, 20 years after the war. …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the …