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Title: Easy Targets and the Timing of Conflict

Author(s): Helmut Bester and Kai A. Konrad

Publication Date: February 2004

Keyword(s): easy targets, timing of conflict and war

Programme Area(s): Public Economics

Abstract: Contestants have to choose whether to initiate a contest or war, or whether to remain peaceful for another period. We find that agents wait and initiate the contest once their rival is sufficiently weak to be an easy target.

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Bester, H and Konrad, K. 2004. 'Easy Targets and the Timing of Conflict'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4245