Handling and Manhandling Civilians: Derivation of Hypotheses (August 2006)
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Consider the following strategic environment: Players. Assume that in each period, civilian i, living in some region, inelastically generates per period income y, using one unit of labor. What the civilian produces can be consumed or transferred, but not saved or invested. Further, assume that production for each civilian takes place subject to some base consumption requirement in the previous period c< y. Control over the region is divided between m combatant groups. We consider two ways in which groups may encounter civilians.
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