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Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2018

Civil conflicts spill over into neighboring countries. This paper proposes a theory of the contagion of civil wars. Weak territorial control facilitates the emergence of a regional market for war inputs in the “porous frontier.” The contagion effect is nonlinear and creates multiple...

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Does Trade Integration Contribute to Peace?

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2013

We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a large panel data set of 243,225 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also...

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A theory of regional conflict complexes

Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2017

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Chapter 24 Political Economy of Peacekeeping

Solomon, Binyam - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 741-774). 2007

The study of peacekeeping from an economics perspective is a fairly recent phenomenon. This chapter surveys three … research areas pursued by economists in analyzing peacekeeping. The first research strand examines the theory and empirics of … peacekeeping financing and burden sharing, while the second strand focuses on the efficacy of third-party intervention in reducing …

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron; Golosov, Michail Ju.; Tsyvinski, Aleh; … - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. Our focus is on the interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment. We show that a key parameter determining the...

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource War

Acemoglu, Daron; Golosov, Michail Ju.; Tsyvinski, Aleh; … - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of our theory. We show that a key parameter...

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Diasporas and conflict

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Give Peace a Chance : The Effect of Ownership and Asymmetric Information on Peace

Corchón, Luis C. - 2013

We study the possibility of peace when two countries fight a war over the ownership of a resource. War is always the outcome of the game played by rational countries - under complete or asymmetric information - when there is no pre-established distribution of the resource among countries. When...

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Diasporas and Conflict

Mariani, Fabio - 2016

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A Trade Institution as a Peaceful Institution? A Contribution to Integrative Theory

Caruso, Raul - 2005

Recent studies emphasize the occurrence of conflict as a rational economic activity as well as production and exchange. Agents are assumed to divide their efforts into fighting and productive activities, or as commonly denoted in 'guns' and 'butter'. This paper does try to go beyond this...

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