lead to suboptimal institutional choice. -- voting ; punishment ; voluntary contributions ; heterogeneity ; experiment …

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

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 …

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

first, low-cost pass at empirical evaluation, we conduct an experiment among farmers in the Ethiopian highlands, a region … based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …

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

Human players in our laboratory experiment received flow payoffs over 120 seconds each period from a standard Hawk … predictions of evolutionary game theory. -- evolutionary dynamics ; Hawk-Dove game ; game theory ; laboratory experiment …