Information and Economic Interdependence

William Reed
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William Reed: Department of Political Science Rice University

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2003, vol. 47, issue 1, 54-71

Abstract: The pacifying effect of economic interdependence on conflict onset can be better understood in the context of "noisy" bargaining. Specifically, trading states bargain under less noisy conditions and, as a result, are unlikely to engage in militarized conflict. Noise is introduced into a generic take-it-or-leave-it bargaining game in the form of nonspecific asymmetric information about the defender's reservation value. Comparative statics show a positive monotonic relationship between variance in the noise term and the onset of militarized conflict. The relationships among economic interdependence, variance in the noise term, and conflict onset are evaluated with a Bayesian heteroskedastic probit model. Historical data are used to demonstrate that interdependence and uncertainty are related to each other and jointly related to the onset of militarized conflict. Uncertainty appears to be reduced by economic interdependence, and this leads to an enhanced probability of agreement short of a militarized clash.

Keywords: conflict; militarized dispute; economic interdependence; uncertainty; Bayesian probit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002702239511

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