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incompleteness between groups becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there …
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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 …
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becomes more serious, the players devote fewer resources to the intra-group conflict. Moreover, there is also a '€˜reversed …
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collective action in the context of finitely repeated intergroup conflict and demonstrate that conflict expenditures are …
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such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
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the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies …
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We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers …
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This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
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Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …
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