the opportunity to engage in a sequence of battles in an attempt to win the war. Each battle is an all-pay auction in … states of the game, the 'tipping states', which are determined by the contestants’ relative strengths, their distances to … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation …

noise. In pure strategies, any asymmetric equilibrium corresponds to one-sided dominance, but there is also a variety of … in cut-throat competition, while any others become ultimately inactive. Of some conceptual interest is the observation …

While the game-theoretic analysis of conflict is often based upon the assumption of multiplicative noise, additive … limit, equilibria in the Hirshleifer contest converge to equilibria in the corresponding all-pay auction. …

component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically and …

, questions related to institutional design and performance, issues in international relations, and electoral competition. In our …