), 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 …

the probability of military conflict and for the simultaneous determination of trade and peace. …We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a … interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is …

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 …

Using the Uppsala Conflict Data Program's Conflict Termination Dataset, 1946-2007, we investigate determinants of war … duration—how long war lasts before the onset of peace. We provide an exposition of the nature of the data and of the … transformations statistical issues involved in quantifying the dynamics of conflict, in particular the onset of peace. Various …