Modelling Behaviour in Intergroup Conflicts: A Review of Microeconomic Approaches

Hannes Rusch

doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0135

Modelling Behaviour in Intergroup Conflicts: A Review of Microeconomic Approaches

Hannes Rusch^*

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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'.

Original language	English
Article number	20210135
Pages (from-to)	947-962
Number of pages	8
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-biological Sciences
Volume	377
Issue number	1851
Early online date	2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0135
Publication status	Published - 23 May 2022

Keywords

conflict
intergroup relations
group behaviour
game theory
behavioural economics
computational modelling
FISSION-FUSION DYNAMICS
IN-GROUP ALTRUISM
SOCIAL IDENTITY
ECONOMICS
PREFERENCES
WAR
ETHNICITY
CONTESTS
SHADOW
COASE

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