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 …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict … conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …

We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …

. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; contest theory ; multi-dimensional resource allocation ; rent-seeking ; experiments …