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 …

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 …

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …

incompleteness between groups becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there …

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 …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there is also a '€˜reversed …