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 …

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

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. -- conflict, contest ; battlefield ; Colonel …

across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …

existence of a unique equilibrium in pure strategies, and carry out some comparative static exercises. -- conflict …

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …

. -- conflict ; all-pay auction ; identity-dependent externalities ; radicalism ; extremism ; contest success function … modeled as all-pay auctions with identity-dependent externalities. In this context, we define centrists and radicals using a …, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may …

attacker's objective is to destroy a set of nodes that disconnects the network. The conflict at each node is modeled as a …