conflict, leading to a low probability of a successful turn-over. The normative and conventional framework, in which players … model to predict the existence of two stable equilibria; one with a high rate of conflict, and another in which no conflict … influence the equilibria's basin of attraction, i.e. the likelihood of a transition and hence the probability of a conflict …

conflict, leading to a low probability of a successful turn-over. The normative and conventional framework, in which players … model to predict the existence of two stable equilibria; one with a high rate of conflict, and another in which no conflict … influence the equilibria's basin of attraction, i.e. the likelihood of a transition and hence the probability of a conflict …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling …

The Malthusian theory of evolution disregards a pervasive fact about human societies: they expand through conflict … the output available to society after deducting the payments necessary for subsistence and for the incentives needed to …

-degenerate higher-order beliefs) can lead to conflict and drive its dynamics. We develop our analysis in the context of three classic … learning about the opponent's type, as well as the possibility of conflict spirals, traps, and cycles; and a deterrence model …. We relate these models to the empirical literature and to current and historical episodes of conflict …

Two individuals are involved in a conflict situation in which preferences are ex ante uncertain. While they eventually …

study the impact of different time horizons on cooperation in (quasi) continuous time prisoner's dilemmas. We find that … cooperation levels are similar or higher when the horizon is deterministic rather than stochastic. Moreover, a deterministic … deterministic horizon subjects show high initial cooperation and a strong end-of-period reversal to defection. Moreover, they do not …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

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