Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance’s ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance … more likely. Third, higher differences in the alliance players’ contributions to alliance effort lead to more internal …

conflict and more intense fighting. -- conflict ; contest ; alliance ; endogenous internal conflict ; hold-up problem ; non …Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …-binding declarations on non-aggression in the relationship between alliance members does not make peaceful settlement within the alliance …

the holdup problem. -- Conflict ; contest ; alliance ; hold-up problem ; experiment …

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment … compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find …