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| Title: | | Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo  |
| Authors: | | Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar Gang, Ira N. Yun, Myeong-Su |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working papers // Department of Economics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2007,10 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Conflict individual rationality economic deprivation Balkans Kosovo |
| JEL: | | J15 O12 I32 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, Rutgers University
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