result, they insufficiently police the agents during booms and excessively do so during busts. Conspicuous law enforcement … prosecutors face, as well as their failure to consider law enforcement's effect on principals' perceptions, result in enforcement …

Initiating a conflict is an investment in social, political or economic change. The decision to attack is sequential in … disregarded in conflict theory. In this dynamic model of decision making we focus on the time dimension of an escalating conflict … oppressive government actions may lead to an earlier outbreak of conflict. However, even if latent conflicts are not immediately …

conflict is modeled as a Bayesian game on which each player's valuation is drawn independently from arbitrary distributions. We … predictable movements in the conflict's dissipation. We focus on arbitrary contest success functions and arbitrary independent …

-regional heterogeneity of preferences. -- majority voting ; secession risk ; cultural distinctiveness ; conflict ; overlapping regional …