Many economic, political and social environments can be described as contests in which
agents exert costly effort while competing over the distribution of a scarce resource. These …

Group contests are ubiquitous. Some examples include warfare between countries,
competition between political parties, team‐incentives within firms, and rent‐seeking. In …

I review the theoretical and experimental literature on the collective action problem in groups
whose members differ in various characteristics affecting individual costs, benefits and …

Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and
enhance efficiency in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in …

A contest is a game where contestants exert costly and irretrievable effort in order to obtain
one or more prizes with some probability. Many real-life situations comply with this general …

We experimentally investigate the effects of real and minimal identities on group conflict. In
turn we provide a direct empirical test of the hypotheses coined by Amartya Sen that the …

We analyze a group contest in which n groups compete to win a group-specific public good
prize. Group sizes can be different and any player may value the prize differently within and …

This paper examines a game‐theoretic model of attack and defense of multiple networks of
targets in which there exist intranetwork strategic complementarities among targets. The …

Contests are a pervasive fact of life, both in the human and the non-human spheres. Frank
Knight (1935, p. 301) saw games of contest as an essential feature of economic life:'The …

We investigate simultaneous inter‐and intra‐group conflict in the shadow of within‐group
power asymmetry and complementarity in members' group‐conflict efforts. A more symmetric …