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| Title: | | Battlefields and marketplaces  |
| Authors: | | Mehlum, Halvor Moene, Karl Ove |
| Issue Date: | | 2002 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo 2002,11 |
| Abstract: | | Divided societies in the developing world experience wasteful struggles for power. We study the relationship between political stability and resources wasted in the struggle within a model of competitive power contests. The model of power contests is similar in structure to models describing oligopolistic market competition. This analogy helps us in deriving results that are new to the conflict literature. We show, for example, that the Herfindahl-Hirschman index can be interpreted as a measure of power concentration and that a peace treaty between Þghting groups have a parallel in tacit collusion between firms in a market. |
| Subjects: | | Violent conflicts Rent-seeking games Herfindahl-Hirschman index Oligopolistic competition |
| JEL: | | C70 D23 D74 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
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