stop making concessions but switch back to conceding at the end, or a deadlock, in which concessions end permanently …. Extending the deadline hurts the players in the first case but is beneficial in the second. When the initial conflict between …

contest is unfair regardless of disclosure decisions. Under this condition, full revelation is the unique perfect Bayesian … equilibrium outcome of the contest with pre-play communication. This is so because the weakest type of the underdog will try to … moderate the favorite, while the strongest type of the favorite will try to discourage the underdog - so that the contest …

-pay contests. Provided that the contest is uniformly asymmetric, full revelation is the unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium outcome … favorite will try to discourage the underdog - so that the contest unravels. Self-disclosure is optimal even though a weak …

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries …. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in … three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to predict the occurrence and location of conflict events on the …