We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium … the distribution costs are drawn from and on the exact specification of the contest success function. …

contest. In both cases, when decisions to share information are made independently, sharing information is strictly dominated …

contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each … component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically and …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … of peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium …

€˜group cohesion effect ’: if the contest between the groups becomes more decisive, or contractual incompleteness between groups … becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there is also a â … becomes less serious, the players devote more resources to the inter-group contest. The model also sheds new light on …

In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil … wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such … situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If individuals decide simultaneously and independently about the amount of …