nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling … observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … of peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium …

We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the … resolution to be sequential: First the alliance fights it out with the rest and – in case they win – later they fight it out … among themselves. For three-player games, we find that it will not be in the interest of any two of them to form an alliance …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the … resolution to be sequential: First the alliance fights it out with the rest and in case they win later they fight it out among … themselves. For three-player games, we find that it will not be in the interest of any two of them to form an alliance. We obtain …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the … resolution to be sequential: First the alliance fights it out with the rest and – in case they win – later they fight it out … among themselves. For three-player games, we find that it will not be in the interest of any two of them to form an alliance …

We experimentally study endogenous alliance formation and contest effort choices in a generic three-player contest … to enter into an alliance and to free-ride on strongly motivated players; hence, strong players prefer to stand alone … stimulating effect if players endogenously form an alliance, which is in line with theories of in-group favoritism. The …

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 …