such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status …

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest … outside enemy, ‘brothers in arms’ may already anticipate future internal conflict about dividing the spoils of winning …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a … revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an … and effectiveness relative to optimal taxation under any contest success function. …

can reverse a country’s apparent comparative advantage relative to its comparative advantage in the absence of conflict …. And, where such conflict is present, comparisons of autarkic prices to world prices could be inaccurate predictors of …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power … asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and analyze how each group’s internal conflict in-fluences its chance of …

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 …