option to engage in conflict. Using a game theoretical framework, it is argued that an increase in the amount of natural … resources (in the informal sector where conflict for a common-pool rent materializes) reduces the incentives of entrepreneurial … increase in the amount of resources in the common pool induces intensified conflict among groups and less R&D investment …

This paper examines the causes of conflict in Burundi and discusses strategies for building peace. The analysis of the …, because unequal distribution of resources generates conflict, maintaining a system based on inequality is difficult because it …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict … conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …

Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict … in conflict-related casualties has a strong negative impact on formal economic activity in the following quarter and a …