conflict and more intense fighting. -- conflict ; contest ; alliance ; endogenous internal conflict ; hold-up problem ; non …Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … internal fight reduces the alliance's ability to succeed against the outside enemy. Second, the option to make non …

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

diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest success functions (CSFs): the auction CSF and the lottery CSF. Consistent with … across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …

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

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of …

, 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 ; all-pay auction ; identity-dependent externalities ; radicalism ; extremism ; contest success function …

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

I study a two-period model of conflict with two combatants and a third party who is an ally of one of the combatants …. There exist perfect Bayesian equilibria in which the third party's intervention worsens the conflict by energizing her ally … to withdraw from or stay in the conflict is based on her prior beliefs and not on the current conditions of the conflict …