The survival and demise of the State
Joan-Maria Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner build a theoretical model to shed light on the dynamics and incentives at play among disputing groups in a State.
Bargaining at retail stores: evidence from Vienna
Sandro Shelegia and Joshua Sherman undertake the first empirical study of the firm-side factors that influence the retail firm’s trading mechanism.
International commodity prices and civil war outbreak
Antonio Ciccone finds that commodity price downturns lead to a substantial increase in the risk of civil war.
Strength in diversity? Fiscal federalism in the United States
Teresa Garcia-Milà, Therese J. McGuire, and Wallace E. Oates discuss many facets of the US fiscal federal governance the role this structure has played in the development of the country.
