In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …

conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the population. Contrary to the arguments that war fosters … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …

by a draw from an Ellsberg urn. In a within-subject experiment, subjects make decisions in three different bargaining … mechanisms: unstructured bargaining, the Texas shoot-out, and a K + 1 auction. We find that the K +1 auction is the most e¢ cient … mechanism, which is in line with theory. Free format bargaining yields a surprising number of disagreements, which are not …

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of … conflict and more intense fighting. …

. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; contest theory ; multi-dimensional resource allocation ; rent-seeking ; experiments …

in that person's group. Group reciprocity may be a key motivation behind intergroup conflict. We investigated group …. -- reciprocity ; groups ; conflict …

collective action in the context of finitely repeated intergroup conflict and demonstrate that conflict expenditures are … destructive nature of intergroup conflicts. -- Communication ; Conflict ; Experiment ; Rent-seeking …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling …

across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …