I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative …

One of the most important and disputed questions within the fields of international relations and conflict studies … of a mediation process is affected by two factors: the relative degree of conflict and the incentives to misrepresent … is a sufficiently low likelihood of a misrepresentation problem. If in addition, the relative degree of conflict is low …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … clash in order to redistribute a divisible prize in their favour. Differently from common contest models agents have the … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a …

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 …

This paper studies a contest in which players with unobservable types may form an alliance in a pre-stage of the game … effort choice in the contest and there exist equilibria in which all types prefer to form an alliance. If the formation of an …

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries …. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to predict the occurrence and location of conflict events on the …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …