Conflict without Misperceptions or Incomplete Information: how the Future Matters

Michelle Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas

Working Papers from California Irvine - School of Social Sciences

Abstract: Conflict and war are typically viewed as the outcome of misperceptions, incomplete information, or even irrationality. We show that it can otherwise. Despite the short-run incentives to settle disputes peacefully , there can be long-term, compounding rewards to going to war when doing better relative to one's opponent today implies doing better tomorrow.

Keywords: INFORMATION; SOCIAL CHOICE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2000
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