@techreport{Bhaumik2007Rationality,
abstract = {Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address this lacuna in the literature using a household-level data set from Kosovo. Our analysis suggests that it is individually rational for competing ethnic communities, Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs, to resist a quick agreement on a social contract to share the region's resources.},
address = {New Brunswick, NJ},
author = {Sumon Kumar Bhaumik and Ira N. Gang and Myeong-Su Yun},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J15; O12; I32; 330; Conflict; individual rationality; economic deprivation; Balkans; Kosovo; Sozialer Konflikt; Ethnische Beziehungen; Rationales Verhalten; Sozialvertrag; Friedenssicherung; Kosovo},
language = {eng},
number = {2007,10},
publisher = {Dep. of Economics, Rutgers, the State Univ. of New Jersey},
title = {Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo},
type = {Working papers // Department of Economics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31270},
year = {2007}
}
