Technologies of Conflict

Jia, Hao; Skaperdas, Stergios

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“…Fortunately, there are computational methods specifically tailored to overcome these kinds of problems. Interested readers can find a detailed description of two different methods to compute the marginal likelihoods of probit and logit models respectively in Appendix of Jia and Skaperdas (2011).…”

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Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation

Jia

Skaperdas

Vaidya

2013

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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Contest functions (alternatively, contest success functions) determine probabilities of winning and losing as a function of contestants' effort. They are used widely in many areas of economics that employ contest games, from tournaments and rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify them into four types of derivation: stochastic, axiomatic, optimally-derived, and microfounded. The additive form (which includes the ratio or "Tullock" functional form) can be derived in all four different ways. We also explore issues in the econometric estimation of contest functions, including concerns with data, endogeneity, and model comparison.

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Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation

Jia

Skaperdas

Vaidya

2013

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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“…Blair (2020) details how Liberia's police was restructured from an “instrument of repression and terror” to a stabilizing factor in the post-conflict period (cf. Joyce 2020). In the process, the Emergency Response Unit and the Police Support Unit were formed as special units which received better equipment, including small arms, and training (Friedman, 2011).…”

Section: Building a Theory Of Small Arms Imports And Conflict Riskmentioning

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Arming for conflict, arming for peace? How small arms imports affect intrastate conflict risk

Mehltretter

2021

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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Although a prevalent technology of conflict, the impact of small arms imports on the risk of intrastate conflict outbreak has not been examined so far. This article argues that small arms not only enhance general military capabilities, but also contribute to state capacities necessary for conflict prevention. These two mechanisms are incorporated in a formal model of power shifts. The derived hypotheses are tested on 146 countries for the period 1993–2014. Using split-population and penalized fixed-effects logit models as innovative estimation methods for rare-events data, small arms imports are found to have no or even a risk-reducing impact.

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“…In more general formulations of contest success functions, military investments are typically weighted by "investment effectiveness" parameters, which allow identical investments by the parties to have different impacts on the battlefield. For details, see Jia and Skaperdas (2012).…”

Section: A Theoretical Framework For the Analysis Of Conflict Crime And Violencementioning

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“…4. Jia and Skaperdas (2012) discuss the theoretical and axiomatic foundations of the various functional forms that contest success functions can take. 5.…”

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Violence without Borders: The Internationalization of Crime and Conflict

2020

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This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved.

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Technologies of Conflict

Cited by 9 publications

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Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation

Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation

Arming for conflict, arming for peace? How small arms imports affect intrastate conflict risk

Violence without Borders: The Internationalization of Crime and Conflict

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