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 …

expenditures. Evidence from lab experiments for treatments with homogeneous participants is qualitatively in line with the …

where no contestant would wish to change his choice of contest, results in the allocation of players to contests that … maximizes aggregate equilibrium effort. For a class of oligopoly models that are equivalent to contests, this implies output …

quantity-equivalent output to obtain total output in the quantity contest. This latter feature implies that the two contests … are interlinked. Examples abound. There are contests in which there is a prize for the number (quantity) of publications …

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such … contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main …