In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil … wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such … situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If individuals decide simultaneously and independently about the amount of …

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 …

geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …

advantage in the final stage. We examine such momentum in conflict scenarios and investigate how valuable it must be to avoid a …, rent dissipation in the two-stage conflict is equal across party whether or not an individual obtains first-stage momentum … as useful conflict benchmarks, they dissipate additional expected contest rents. This additional rent-dissipative toll …

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …

We study the possibility of peace when two countries fight a war over the ownership of a resource. War is always the …-established distribution of the resource among countries. When there is such a distribution of the resource, under complete information peace … equilibria: Peaceful Equilibria, in which peace has a positive probability, and Aggressive Equilibria, which assign probability …

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 … significantly higher for contiguous countries that are likely to experience more conflict. More importantly, we find that not only …