TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Battlefields and marketplaces
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Mehlum, Halvor
A1  - Moene, Karl
SP  - 485
EP  - 496
VL  - 13
IS  - 6
N2  - Divided societies in the developing world experience wasteful struggles for power. We study the relationship between political stability and resources wasted in the struggle within a model of competitive power contests. The model of power contests is similar in structure to models describing oligopolistic market competition. This analogy helps us in deriving results that are new to the conflict literature. We show, for example, that the Herfindahl-Hirschman index can be interpreted as a measure of power concentration and that a peace treaty between fighting groups has a parallel in tacit collusion between firms in a market.<p /> 
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690214334
ID  - ref1
ER  -