This chapter introduces the author’s selected papers on the economics of coercion and conflict. It defines coercion and conflict and relates them. In conflict, adversaries make costly investments in the means of coercion. The application of coercion does not remove choice but limits it to...

This paper develops the Hotelling spatial model investigating the optimal choices of R&D risk in a market exhibiting network externalities. Assuming that firms perform R&D projects with identical expected outcomes but different risk degrees, it is found that, under certain conditions, the level...

Individual players in a simultaneous equation binary choice model act differently in different environments in ways that are frequently not captured by observables and a simple additive random error. This paper proposes a random coefficient specification to capture this type of heterogeneity in...