caa a22 4500 47707779X CHVBK 20180405111443.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00153239 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00153239 To fight or not to fight? [Elektronische Daten] An analysis of submission, struggle, and the design of contests [Achim Körber, Martin Kolmar] This paper considers the players' behaviour in an asymmetric two-player contest. When do they decide to "struggle” and when to "subjugate”? Analysing contest-success functions it is found that two crucial prerequisites for "struggle” or "war” have to be met. Thus, such an equilibrium is possible but restrictive. If a self-interested rule-setter chooses the contest-success function endogenously we show that one player will always subjugate. Applications to rent-seeking and environmental regulation are discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Körber Achim Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, P.O. Box 55 60, D-78434, Konstanz, Germany aut Kolmar Martin Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, P.O. Box 55 60, D-78434, Konstanz, Germany aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/3-4(1996-09-01), 381-392 0048-5829 88:3-4<381 1996 88 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153239 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153239 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Körber Achim Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, P.O. Box 55 60, D-78434, Konstanz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kolmar Martin Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, P.O. Box 55 60, D-78434, Konstanz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/3-4(1996-09-01), 381-392 0048-5829 88:3-4<381 1996 88 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer