Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54590 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WZB Discussion Paper No. SP II 2011-105
Publisher: 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper surveys some of the strategic aspects that emerge if players fight in an alliance against an enemy. The survey includes the free-rider problem and the hold-up problem that emerges in the baseline model, the role of supermodularity in alliance members' effort contributions, the role of budget constraints, the role of information transfer inside the alliance, and the role of in-group favoritism.
Subjects: 
Alliances
contests
conflict
in-group favoritism
JEL: 
D72
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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