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conflict and more intense fighting …
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This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
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conflict and more intense fighting. …
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We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict influences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
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by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single-stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …
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outside enemy, ‘brothers in arms’ may already anticipate future internal conflict about dividing the spoils of winning …; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest …
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We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and analyze how each group’s internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
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