A contest is a game where several players compete for winning prizes by expending costly efforts. We assume that the … outcome of a contest is an ordered partition of the set of players (a ranking) and a contest success function assigns a … probability to each possible outcome as a function of players’ efforts. We define a contest success function for contests whose …

evidence for a higher propensity to opt for conflict when entering the fight in a group than when having to fight as a single … present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively … compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

how group identity impacts the provision of a public good in a contest situation with different prize sharing rules. We … show that group identity significantly increases contributions. Moreover, it turns out that identity affects how subjects … react to different prize sharing rules. Our findings contribute to an increased understanding of the nature of group …

We study experimentally the effects of sorting in contests between groups of heterogeneous players whose within-group …,D) group which surprisingly is not demoralized by the unbalanced matching. Despite strong overbidding, relative aggregate …