War or conflict is an activity of aggression and violence with weapons and new technologies for resolving internal and … of war is difficult to create because of manifold factors engaged in triggering conflicts over time and space. This study … populations that can lead to war …

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war, and …

to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions … with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war … models of militarized conflicts, yields new theoretical justification for existing empirical findings with respect to war …

War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …

in times of war – i.e., men …

, policy variables). If the bulk of fluctuations during war episodes can be explained by the rise in government spending in the …

generalized TFP shocks capturing standard technological factors as well as the potential effects of war on the labor force. The … model is estimated and used (i) to assess the importance of depreciation shocks during war episodes, and (ii) to quantify … of countries that have experienced large war-related destruction, and that the welfare losses from fluctuations can be …

War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …

have reduced appetites for war far below their current level. This view is clearly incomplete: at best, confounding factors … are at work. Here, we explore the capacity to wage war. Most fundamentally, the growing number of sovereign states has … willingness to go to war, conditional on the national capacity to do so. But the same factors may also have been increasing the …