This paper studies effort-maximizing prize designs in team contests with an arbitrary number of pairwise battles. The … majority-score rule with a headstart score for the weaker team: all battles are assigned team-invariant scores; the team …

In this paper, a formal rent-seeking theory of the firm is developed. The main idea is that integration (compared to …

ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict to study patterns of conflict dynamics. It turns out that …. In particular, we are unable to study dynamic military conflict as a series of “battles” that are resolved individually … subject to this limitation. Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics emerge, which we can link to both historical conflict and …

This paper develops a model of conflict resolution over scarce water in a trans-boundary river. In our model, we … along the river, they sequentially bargain over the surplus of water, or decide to engage in a military conflict with their … upstream neighbour. The probability of winning a military conflict is determined by a contest success function which depends on …

In a canonical model of military conflict, victory and defeat depend stochastically on the difference of resources … deployed by the conflict parties. The present paper offers a comprehensive analysis of that model. The unique Nash equilibrium … conflict and, less often so, of its resolution. The formal derivation exploits the variation-diminishing property of higher …

variation of elected competitors by investigating changes in competition induced by legislators who leave parliament during the … inclusion of other measures for political competition. …

work team effectiveness (e.g., Barrick, Stewart, Neubert, & Mount, 1998; Barry & Stewart, 1997) despite the fact that the …

observe surprisingly high levels of within - group cooperation in conflict situations such as civil wars. We provide an …