I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative …

One of the most important and disputed questions within the fields of international relations and conflict studies … of a mediation process is affected by two factors: the relative degree of conflict and the incentives to misrepresent … is a sufficiently low likelihood of a misrepresentation problem. If in addition, the relative degree of conflict is low …

This study uses a controlled laboratory experiment to analyze the effects of conflict on economic growth and … civilization under various conflict scenarios. The findings suggest that conflict has a negative effect on economic growth (30 ….40 percent less wealth creation in treatment group). The shadow of conflict is enough to strongly distort resource allocation (36 …

distribution of culturally diverse groups affects the outcome. To understand why ethnic diversity affects conflict and economic …

Ethnic and other forms of tribal conflict have been extensively studied, but not within the economic model of conflict …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two rational and risk-neutral opponents conflict in … order to appropriate a positive fraction of a stake. This paper is intended to extend the literature on conflict dealing …

conflict is modeled as a Bayesian game on which each player's valuation is drawn independently from arbitrary distributions. We … predictable movements in the conflict's dissipation. We focus on arbitrary contest success functions and arbitrary independent …