Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 420-47
We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of sociopolitical conflict. The theoretical prediction is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and...