), 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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas … political unions; and (c) discusses extensions and directions for further research. -- wars ; alliances ; conflict technology …"This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and …

civil war between the Northern and Southern forces lasted for five decades with an intermission during the seventies. It … impediments that shall they face, e.g., return to war, underdeveloped region, lack of education, health and living facilities. In … this paper we reiterate the accords of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and introduce a theory that the Southern …

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas …

international conflict. In this paper, we investigate whether this motive is sufficiently important for war to persist in … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies …

quo without arming (or unarmed peace) and open conflict (or war) that is possibly destructive. With a focus on outcomes … over an insecure portion of their combined output, we study the choice between a peace agreement that maintains the status … that are immune to both unilateral deviations and coalitional deviations, we find that, depending on war’s destructive …

civil war and civil conflict (Sambanis 2002; Collier and Hoeffler, 2007; Blattman and Miguel 2010), and more general aspects … emergence of conflict. The political economy perspective offered here differs from other important surveys and analyses of the … same topic, which have focused on the ethnic dimensions of war (Horowitz 1985), the general causes and consequences of …

conflict and makes the ideologues more successful yet worse off. Our results rationalize "imperial peace" - long periods of … conflict. Both ideologues lose in success probability, but gain in expected utility. Elimination of the mercenary increases … stability and social peace in multi-ethnic empires, and explain why the weakening and breakdown of such empires is often …