We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … interaction, destruction of resources by defeated players can lead to lower appropriative efforts and higher overall efficiency … 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 develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy. …

I study a two-period model of conflict with two combatants and a third party who is an ally of one of the combatants …. There exist perfect Bayesian equilibria in which the third party's intervention worsens the conflict by energizing her ally … to withdraw from or stay in the conflict is based on her prior beliefs and not on the current conditions of the conflict …

movement or entrants. It is not uncommon for challengers to win such conflicts despite their lack of resources. They can do … it was locked in by past investments. To model such asymmetric conflict we use a three stage game. In the first stage the …

own resources. We show that there exists a unique equilibrium for this conflict game and examine the relation between …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 …