conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict …

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …

post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms … if the buyer's bargaining position is sufficiently strong. Moreover, we show that negotiations provide stronger … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry …

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 influences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

likelihood of agreement in bilateral negotiations over the provision of a public good when parties have private information over … statistically significant when we allow for non-payoff-maximizing behavior at each stage of the game. Introducing communication has …