We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …

autonomy. If this process fails then both regions engage in a costly political conflict which can only lead to the maintenance … struggle never occurs. In contrast, in our experiments we observe a large amount of fighting involving high material losses …, even in a case in which the possibilities for an arrangement without conflict are very salient. In our experimental …

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … payoffs for both nondiscriminatory and discriminatory (where the reward is contestant-dependent) contests. We derive …

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most able contestants? Do contestants avoid competition? In this … away from competition and sorting decreases. Eventually, contests with smaller prizes attract stronger participants, i …

The existence of punishment opportunities has been shown to cause efficiency in public goods experiments to increase … experiment to study the conjecture that an environment with stronger punishment possibilities leads to higher material but lower …

experiments that aim to measure the prevalence of interdependent preferences. …

bubble. The results of the experiment suggest that the company’s attempt to exchange its shares for government debt was the …