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 …

Identifying who engages in inter-group conflict – and if they do so why – may help to predict and potentially prevent …-group conflict. We derive a typology and measure of group-dependent social preferences from a social preference model. We gather …

compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find … evidence for a higher propensity to opt for conflict when entering the fight in a group than when having to fight as a single … coincide with a biased perception of the fighting strength in asymmetric conflict. …

We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The theoretical prediction is that … conflict expenditures are independent of group size and of whether punishment is available or not. We find, first, that …

Conflict parties are frequently involved into more than one conflict at a given time. In this paper the interrelated … structure of conflictive relations is modeled as a conflict network where opponents are embedded in a local structure of … bilateral conflicts. Conflict parties invest in specific conflict technology to attack their respective rivals and defend their …

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