We investigate experimentally the effects of information about native/immigrant identity, and the ability to … communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with … British and Immigrant subjects in the UK we find that neither information about identity nor communicating self …

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 …

-makers form, and what determines whether a conflict will arise? We study a network formation game between ex-ante symmetric … players in the laboratory to examine the dynamics of alliance formation and conflict evolution. A peaceful equilibrium yields …

advantage in the final stage. We examine such momentum in conflict scenarios and investigate how valuable it must be to avoid a …, rent dissipation in the two-stage conflict is equal across party whether or not an individual obtains first-stage momentum … as useful conflict benchmarks, they dissipate additional expected contest rents. This additional rent-dissipative toll …

Throughout history, victory in conflict has created fearsome reputations. With it, the victor ensures greater … motives for conflict. When only victory or defeat is informative, the less scary party may attack to show that they are … tougher than expected. If the occurrence of conflict also conveys information, the scarier party is more likely to attack. By …

observe surprisingly high levels of within - group cooperation in conflict situations such as civil wars. We provide an … future security. We argue that a group's reputation is a public good with a natural weakest - link structure. We extend the …

these reputation concerns is amplified when the communication within the boardroom is transparent …

resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to the putative terrorist, providing the microfoundations of dissident … group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …

, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of …