incompleteness between groups becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there …

, R&D contests, electoral competition in political markets, military conflict and sports. I survey here this type of …

We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The theoretical prediction is that … conflict expenditures are independent of group size and of whether punishment is available or not. We find, first, that …

This paper examines the relationship between inequality and economic growth using conflict models and computational … simulations. I construct a dynamic sequential conflict model that allows us to observe the cumulative effect of inequalities in … players. The main findings are as follows: (1) if the conflict is not intensive, then the equilibrium that achieves equal …

of the group in the conflict and its members’ utilities vary with the degree of within-group inequality. We show that …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …

In recent debates, morality or social norms have been proposed as an instrument to reduce conflict behavior. As the … discriminate between these different conflict efforts, strategic effects due to a one-sided increase in morality might actually … lead to total increased conflict effort in the economy …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …