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Anderton, Charles H.; Carter, John R. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1211-1258). 2007

Peace economics can be defined as the use of economics to understand the causes and effects of violent conflict in the … peace economics, highlighting seminal as well as current contributions. Particularly noteworthy among the newer developments … relatively large cross-country panels. The topics surveyed include: the relation of peace economics to both defense economics and …

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National borders, conflict and peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021

equilibrium if all countries are democracies. Three key findings emerge. First, the perpetual peace equilibrium hypothesized by … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …

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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …

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Clausewitz on Auctions

Häfner, Samuel - 2012

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 structure. Such framing provides a microfounded...

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War and relatedness

Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...

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Wars of conquest and independence

Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013

Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...

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Unequal Sacrifice : Income Inequality and Willingness to Fight Wars

Anderson, Christopher J. - 2010

Does economic inequality diminish the capacity of democracies to extract voluntary sacrifice? And does inequality undermine citizen's willingness to do their civic duty when the state is under threat? We address these questions by linking income inequality with people's willingness to fight for...

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Understanding the Cost of the War Against Iraq and How that Realization Can Affect International Law

Larson, David Allen - 2006

This article presents a sampling of the ways in which $236.5 billion could have been spent if that money was not dedicated to the war in Iraq. The identification of specific alternatives may provoke further discussion as to how the United States has been spending, and how it should spend, its...

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