Modern economics has largely ignored the issue of outright conflict as an alternative way of allocating goods, assuming instead the existence of well-defined property rights enforced by an undefined third party. And yet even in ostensibly peaceful market transactions, conflict exists as an...

This paper studies the relationship between horizontal inequality and conflict onset. With this aim, zero-inflated regression models are applied to measures of inequality across ethnic groups. Our results show that horizontal inequality is directly and significantly related to the emergence of...