becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there is also a â …

In many situations there is a potential for conflict both within and between groups. Examples include wars and civil … wars and distributional conflict in multitiered organizations like federal states or big companies. This paper models such … situations with a logistic technology of conflict. If individuals decide simultaneously and independently about the amount of …

We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action … in a conflict with an external enemy. We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a …

-group competition. For this purpose, we develop an infinitely repeated rent-seeking game between two groups of different size. We first …

autonomy. If this process fails then both regions engage in a costly political conflict which can only lead to the maintenance …, even in a case in which the possibilities for an arrangement without conflict are very salient. In our experimental …

autonomy. If this process fails then both regions engage in a costly political conflict which can only lead to the maintenance …, even in a case in which the possibilities for an arrangement without conflict are very salient. …

impact is non monotonous and is conditional on a) equilibrium type: conflict (rent-seeking) or peace, b) the reasons of … changes in wealth distribution, and c) the size of the ruling class, “elite”. In the conflict stage, institutional quality … conflict to peace stage (with no rent-seeking and fast growth) requires the reduction of inequality. This generates an …

rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify them …