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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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communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with …-characteristics significantly affect the average level of conflict. Both of those, however, significantly affect players' strategies, in the sense … of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …
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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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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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