Chair: Gerald Schneider

• Jean-Paul Azam (University of Toulouse and Institut Universitaire de France, ARQDE, IDEI, and CSAE, Oxford).“Suicide-Bombing as Inter-Generational Investment”,
  
  
• “Sensitivity Analysis of the Empirical Literature on Civil War Onset”
  Håvard Hegre (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)
  Nicholas Sambanis (Yale University)
  
  

Chair: Scott Gates

• “Institutions as Mediators? The Role of Decentralization and Majority Rule in the Polarization-Conflict Nexus”
  Nina Wiesehomeier (University of Konstanz)
  Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz)
  
  
• “A Pooled Empirical Test of Median and Mean Voter Models in Committee decision-Making”
  Robert Thomson (Rand Europe and Utrecht University)
  René Torenvlied (Utrecht University)

Chair: Conchita D’Ambrosio

• “Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not: Conflict Diamonds and the Value of Firms”
  Massimo Guidolin (University of Virginia)
  Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University and IGIER)
  A new version of the paper will be presented at the meeting



• “Natural Resources and Civil War: Another Look with New Data”
  Indra de Soysa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU)
  Eric Neumayer (London School of Economics)
  

Chair: David Stasavage

• “Anarchy”
  Stergios Skaperdas (University of California)
  
  
• “So Much Fighting – So Little Success”
  Halvor Mehlum (University of Oslo)
  Karl Ove Moene Moene (University of Oslo and Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)
  

Chair: Stergios Skaperdas

• “Public Versus Private Deliberation in a Representative Democracy”
  David Stasavage (London School of Economics)
  
  
• “Institutional Inconsistency and Political Instability: The Duration of Polities”
  Scott Gates (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO and Norwegian University of Science & Technology)
  Håvard Hegre (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)
  Mark P. Jones (Michigan State University)
  Håvard Strand (University of Oslo and PRIO)
  
  

Chair: Karl Ove Moene

• “Deprivation and Social Exclusion”
  Walter Bossert (Département de Sciences Economiques and CIREQ, Université de Montréal)
  Conchita D’Ambrosio (Università di Milano-Bicocca, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin, and Università Bocconi)
  Vito Peragine (Università di Bari)

• “Foreign Economic Liberalization and Political Instability: The Latin American Case”
  Margit Bussmann (University of Konstanz)
  Gerald Schneider (University of Konstanz)
  Nina Wiesehomeier (University of Konstanz)