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Kai A. Konrad and Dan Kovenock
The Alliance Formation Puzzle and Capacity Constraints



The formation of an alliance in conflict situations is known to suffer from a collective action problem and from the potential of internal conflict. We show that budget constraints of an intermediate size can overcome this strong disadvantage and explain the formation of alliances.  
  SP II 2008-07
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