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Modelling behaviour in intergroup conflicts: a review of microeconomic approaches
1Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Microeconomic modelling offers a powerful formal toolbox for analysing the complexities of real-world intergroup relations and conflicts. One important class of models scrutinizes individuals' valuations of different group memberships, attitudes towards members of different groups and preferences for resource distribution in group contexts. A second broad class uses game theoretical methods to study strategic interactions within and between groups of individuals in contest and in conflict. After a concise discussion of some essential peculiarities of microeconomic modelling, this review provides an overview of the pertinent literatures in economics, highlights instructive examples of central model types and points out several ways forward. This article is part of the theme issue 'Intergroup conflict across taxa'.
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