Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109046 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2014/19
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
Throughout history, victory in conflict has created fearsome reputations. With it, the victor ensures greater allegiance of the wider population, increasing their rents at the expense of their enemy. Such reputational concerns generate two motives for conflict. When only victory or defeat is informative, the less scary party may attack to show that they are tougher than expected. If the occurrence of conflict also conveys information, the scarier party is more likely to attack. By failing to do so, the population would perceive them as weak and switch loyalties anyway. In this case, conflict arises to save face.
Subjects: 
Conflict
Reputations
JEL: 
D74
C73
D83
F51
H56
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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