We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium …

place before two litigants face each other in court. Litigation is a legal contest with players who are privately informed … litigation should ADR fail to resolve the conflict. We show that optimal ADR has to break down on-path in some cases to screen …

This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … only influences the intensity of the fight against a rebel group constituted by landless individuals. We show that conflict …

The presence of conflict affects people's economic incentives. Some sectors of activity flourish, while others suffer …. For understanding structural problems in developing countries and designing appropriate post-conflict reconstruction … policies, it is essential to understand in what ways conflict affects the structure of the economy. We develop a simple model …

in CCT (treated) in conflict affected regions benefit more (or less) than their counterparts in peaceful areas. To test … this, we combine longitudinal CCT data from Colombia with a conflict event dataset. This allows us to use standard … different groups and indicators of violence. We find that the CCT program had an extra benefit in conflict areas concerning …

We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate … sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural … between conflict intensity and resource rents is non-monotonous, and that the economy's income growth rate may be negatively …