microfoundations, the welfare consequences of rent seeking can be studied. In particular, I show that competition among rent seekers …

Many situations in the social and economic life are characterized by rivalry and conflict between two or more competing … experiment that investigates the impact of political institutions within groups on the development of conflict between groups. We … find that relative to the case in which group members can decide individually on their level of conflict engagement …

hierarchy that is expressed as status conflict in the contexts of groups with varying levels of consensus about the status … hierarchy. We find that group hierarchies are least stable when there is both a high level of status conflict and low consensus … of the status hierarchy. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice …

I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative …

One of the most important and disputed questions within the fields of international relations and conflict studies … of a mediation process is affected by two factors: the relative degree of conflict and the incentives to misrepresent … is a sufficiently low likelihood of a misrepresentation problem. If in addition, the relative degree of conflict is low …