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Do groups fight more? Experimental evidence on conflict initiation

Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023

compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find … evidence for a higher propensity to opt for conflict when entering the fight in a group than when having to fight as a single … coincide with a biased perception of the fighting strength in asymmetric conflict. …

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Ethnic conflict: The role of ethnic representation

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2023

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …

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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014

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 …

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The Social Dynamics of Collective Action: Evidence from the Captain Swing Riots, 1830-31

Aidt, Toke; Leon, Gabriel; Satchell, Max - 2017

Social unrest often erupts suddenly and diffuses quickly. What drives people to overcome their collective action problem and join a riot or protest, turning what is initially a small event into a widespread movement? We address this question by examining the Swing riots of 1830-31. The...

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...

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Evolutionary determinants of war

Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013

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

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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013

We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental threeplayer contests. We find that players in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending...

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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph H.; Mansour, Hani; … - 2013

Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It …-election casualties, which is consistent with the hypothesis that election fraud causes conflict. We conduct several robustness tests and …

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan Antonio; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

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Livelihood decisions under the shadow of conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Cameron, John; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2013

We analyse rural household livelihood and children's school enrolment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the … show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influences current … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …

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