Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31270 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007-10
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
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

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