present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

. -- individual behavior ; group membership ; team decision-making ; experiment … making in teams. I find in an investment experiment that individual decisions with salient group membership are largely the … same as team decisions. This finding bridges the literature on team decision making and on group membership effects …

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue … that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue … explaining a guest team's propensity to concede goals, but not so for scoring goals. Focusing on the difference between scored …