War signals: A theory of trade, trust, and conflict

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1114-1147

  Rohner, Dominic ^a   Thoenig, Mathias ^a   Zilibotti, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Civil war; Conflict; Cooperation; Cultural transmission; Ethnic fractionalization; Human capital; Learning; Matching; Peacekeeping; Stag hunt game; Stochastic war; Strategic complementarity; Trade

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; CULTURAL RELATIONS; ECONOMIC THEORY; ETHNICITY; HUMAN CAPITAL; PEACEKEEPING; POLITICAL ECONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRADE FLOW; TRADE PERFORMANCE; TRADE RELATIONS;

EID: 84880712932     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdt003     Document Type: Article

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