Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2009
We study how conflict in contest games is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The theoretical prediction is that … conflict expenditures are independent of group size and of whether punishment is available or not. We find, first, that …