We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …

This paper focuses on the main factors that contribute to the dangers of violent internal conflict erupting, or re …-igniting after a peace has been concluded. The conflict literature has identified greed and grievance as the principle causes of … conflict. But for either of them to take the form of large-scale violence there must be other factors at work, specifically a …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture positive investments in ‘conflict … for the measurement and evaluation of conflict and …

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …

We study how the possibility of a conflict between natives and immigrants shapes income redistribution in democracies …. Conflict erupts when immigrants are given less than what they could obtain by resorting to confrontation. That in turn can make …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the …

advantage in the conflict or that the joint production process exhibits increasing returns. Nor is there any presumption that …, the formation of alliances tends to reduce the severity of the conflict over the contestable resource. Furthermore …, despite the internal conflict that arises among the winning alliance’s members over the distribution of their joint product …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the …