Decisiveness, Peace, and Inequality in Games of Conflict

Juan A. Lacomba (), Francisco Lagos, Ernesto Reuben and Frans van Winden ()
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Juan A. Lacomba: Department of Economic Theory and Economic History, University of Granada.

No 16/04, ThE Papers from Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the University of Granada.

Abstract: In this paper, we study two games of conflict characterized by unequal access to productive resources and finitely repeated interaction. In the Noisy Conflict game, the winner of the conflict is randomly determined depending on a players’ relative conflict expenditures. In the Decisive Conflict game, the winner of the conflict is simply the player who spends more on conflict. By comparing behavior in the two games, we evaluate the effect that “decisiveness” has on the allocation of productive resources to conflict, the resulting inequality in the players’ final wealth, and the likelihood that players from long-lasting peaceful relations..

Keywords: conflict; decisiveness; inequality; peace; rent seeking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D72 D74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2016-05-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-gth, nep-hpe, nep-mic, nep-net and nep-pol
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Journal Article: Decisiveness, peace, and inequality in games of conflict (2017)
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