equilibrium of symmetric contests, increasing the number of competing teams may increase or decrease each team's performance, but …' values, individual, team, and contest performance may increase or decrease with team size. Considering just two competing … nature of uncertainty, either team may be more likely to win. More generally, when teams' value cdfs differ, increasing one …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …