Research Magazine 2023

EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS

■ When two countries with different motivations wage war, the ideologically motivated country enjoys an advantage over one motivated by economics. ■ The advantage persists even if their initial endowments differ significantly. ■ It vanishes if their initial valuations of winning are sufficiently dissimilar.

Leo MacDonald, Professor of Quantitative Analysis Aniruddha Bagchi, Professor of Economics

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