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Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables....
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I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative strength and seeks to keep them engaged in a war of attrition for as long as possible. In the unique Markov Perfect Equilibrium, the sender employs “shifting rhetoric”: she...
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This handbook brings together contributions from leading scholars who take an economic perspective to study peace and conflict. Some chapters are largely empirical, exploring the correlates and quantifying the costs of conflict. Others are more theoretical, examining the mechanisms that lead to...
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While mediation efforts in violent conflicts often fail, the academic literature on mediation has long ignored both … under which the failure of mediation leads to an escalation of civil war. Based on the literature on bargaining, we argue … hardliners and moderates within those conflict parties, influence the likelihood of escalation after mediation failure. A …
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