A territorial conflict: trade-offs and strategies
Date
2018
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Defence and Peace Economics
Print ISSN
1024-2694
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1476-8267
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Routledge
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29
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6
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1 - 10
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English
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Abstract
We study a war scenario in which the winner occupies the loser’s territory. Attacking a territory increases the chance of winning, but also causes harm, which in turn decreases the territory’s value (i.e. the reward of winning). This paper highlights the effects of this trade-off on the equilibrium strategies of the warring states in a contest game with endogenous rewards. Providing both static and dynamic models, our analysis captures insights regarding strategic behavior in asymmetric contests with such conflict. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group