We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

power of Nash equilibrium observed in Tullock contests. In our standard contest treatment, only 7% of choices are consistent … huge behavioral variation typically observed in Tullock contests. …

Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such … contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main …

hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …

deterministic contests average expenditures converge to equilibrium levels when subjects only get feedback about own earnings, and … additional feedback about rivals' choices and earnings raises average expenditures. In stochastic contests information feedback …

very different effects depending on the contest structure. We observe the highest rent dissipation in stochastic contests … when players only get feedback on own choices and earnings. In these contests aggregate expenditures usually exceed the …. In contrast, in deterministic contests average expenditures converge to equilibrium levels when subjects only get …

This paper studies a large class of imperfectly discriminating contests, referred to as elastic contests, that induce … definite answers regarding the extent of rent dissipation in Tullock contests with intermediate values of the decisiveness …