. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have strong impact on subsequent …

. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western hostile casualties, our proxy for conflict, have strong impact on subsequent …

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

conflict and more intense fighting …

, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases …We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the … right to allocate society's resources, and we allow for costly inter-group mobility. The winning group offers an allocation …

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict …

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which …” strategy which stochastically allocates zero resources to a subset of battlefields. Advantaged players employ a “stochastic …, where winning a battlefield is probabilistic, both players divide their resources equally across all battlefields …

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …