Endogenous formation of alliances in conflicts

Francis Bloch

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Abstract: This paper studies the endogenous formation of alliance in conflicts offering a survey of the recent literature and providing new results. We analyze the effect of group sizes on conflict, study endogenous alliance formation in a general model of conflict with linear technology and discuss recent developments of the theory of alliance formation, involving the determination of sharing rules inside the alliance and dynamic alliance formation in nested conflicts.

Keywords: alliance formation; conflicts; rent-seeking contest; collective action; the paradox of group size; sharing rules; nested conflicts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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