TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bhaumik, Sumon K.
AU  - Gang, Ira N.
AU  - Yun, Myeong-Su
        TI  - Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
        PY  - 2007/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2682
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2682
        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, Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs, to resist a quick agreement on a social contract to share the region’s resources.
        KW  - micro-evidence
KW  - Balkans
KW  - economic deprivation
KW  - individual rationality
KW  - conflict
KW  - Kosovo
        ER  -