such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

explain delay. For a given contest technology, delay may occur if there is an asymmetry between defense and attack, if the …

Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii …) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic contest models … depending on whether the first, second, or both wealth effects play a role: namely, a privilege contest, an ability contest, and …

on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict. …

; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest … outside enemy, ‘brothers in arms’ may already anticipate future internal conflict about dividing the spoils of winning …

We consider preference evolution in a class of conflict models with finite populations. We show that whereas aggregate … conflict effort is always the same in evolutionary equilibrium, larger populations have greater individual subjective costs of … conflict effort. …

conflict and more intense fighting. …