I Introduction ; 1. Economic perspectives on peace and conflict. ; Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas ; II Correlates of peace and conflict ; 2. Informational aspects of conflict. ; Karl Warneryd ; 3. Commitment problems and shifting power as a cause of conflict. ; Robert Powell ; 4. Bargaining and conflict with incomplete information. ; Santiago Sanchez-Pages ; 5. The Hobbesian trap. ; Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom ; 6. Religion, conflict and cooperation. ; Michael T. McBride and Gary Richardson ; 7. Comparing polarization measures. ; Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray ; 8. Inequality, polarization and conflict. ; Jose G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol ; 9. On the causes of civil war. ; Anke Hoeffler ; 10. Reflections on Africa's wars. ; Jean-Paul Azam ; III Consequences and costs of conflict ; 11. Methods for measuring aggregate costs of conflict. ; Javier Gardeazabal ; 12. How many bucks in a bang: On the estimation of the economic costs of conflict. ; Tilman Bruck, Olaf J. de Groot and Carlos Bozzoli ; 13. Estimating the costs of war: Methodological issues, with applications to Iraq and ; Afghanistan. ; Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes ; 14. Estimating the human costs of war: A sample survey approach. ; Michael Spagat ; 15. Mental health in the aftermath of conflict. ; Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer ; 16. Measuring the economic costs of terrorism. ; Walter Enders and Eric Olson ; 17. Assessing the e_ects of military expenditure on growth. ; Giorgio d'Agostino, J. Paul Dunne, and Luca Pieroni ; 18. The economic welfare cost of conflict: An empirical assessment. ; S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess ; IV On the mechanics of conflict ; 19. Technologies of conflict. ; Hao Jia and Stergios Skaperdas ; 20. Endogenous formation of alliances in contests. ; Francis Bloch ; 21. Conflict with multiple battlefields. ; Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson ; 22. Laboratory experiments on conflict. ; Klaus Abbink ; V Conflict and peace in economic context ; 23. War, trade, and natural resources: A historical perspective. ; Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke ; 24. Trade in the shadow of power. ; Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas, and Constantinos Syropoulos ; 25. Conflict and policy in general equilibrium: Insights from a standard trade model. ; Ernesto Dal Bo and Pedro Dal Bo ; 26. The use of coercion in society: insecure property rights, conflict and economic backwardness. ; Francisco M. Gonzalez ; 27. War and poverty. ; Patricia Justino ; 28. Aggressive elites and vulnerable entrepreneurs: Trust and cooperation in the shadow ; of conflict. ; Halvor Mehlum and Karl Moene ; VI Pathways to peace ; 29. Globalization and international conflict: Can FDI increase cooperation among nations? ; Solomon W. Polachek, Carlos Seiglie, and Jun Xiang ; 30. National borders, conflict and peace. ; Enrico Spolaore ; 31. Political institutions and war initiation: The democratic peace hypothesis revisited. ; Michelle R. Garfinkel ; 32. Why follow the leader? Collective action, credible commitment and conflict. ; Philip Keefer ; 33. Conflict -inhibiting norms. ; Peter T. Leeson and Christopher J. Coyne