TY - JOUR
T1 - Rationality as a barrier to peace
T2 - micro-evidence from Kosovo
AU - Bhaumik, Sumon
AU - Gang, Ira N.
AU - Yun, Myeong-Su
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - 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, Kosovar Albanians and Kosovar Serbs, to resist a quick agreement on a social contract to share the region's resources.
AB - 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, Kosovar Albanians and Kosovar Serbs, to resist a quick agreement on a social contract to share the region's resources.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=66149102901&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ces/journal/v51/n2/full/ces20091a.html
U2 - 10.1057/ces.2009.1
DO - 10.1057/ces.2009.1
M3 - Article
SN - 0888-7233
VL - 51
SP - 242
EP - 264
JO - Comparative Economic Studies
JF - Comparative Economic Studies
IS - 2
ER -