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Self-enforcing collective counterterror retaliation

Oliveira, André L.; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may …-specific benefits from retaliation enjoyed by each coalition member, the relatively lower spillover benefit from retaliation enjoyed by … the anticipated backlash from retaliation, which targets coalition members only. …

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A sequentially variant Blotto game with one-sided and incomplete information

Kim, Geofferey Jiyun; Kim, Jerim - 2024

We develop a sequentially variant Blotto game with one-sided and incomplete information to investigate strategic interactions between a defender and an attacker whose target site values are unknown. The defender first allocates defensive resources before the attacker decides a probability...

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Political salience and regime resilience

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Huck, Steffen; … - 2023

We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents' expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives, and we show that comparative statics in salience...

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Conflicts with momentum

Boudreau, James W.; Mathews, Timothy; Sanders, Shane; … - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12

Take the fort, then take the city. In a two-stage, two-party contest, victory in the initial stage can provide an advantage in the final stage. We examine such momentum in conflict scenarios and investigate how valuable it must be to avoid a Pyrrhic victory. Our main finding is that although the...

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The Texas shoot-out under Knightian Uncertainty

Bauch, Gerrit; Riedel, Frank - 2022

The allocation of a co-owned company to a single owner using the Texas Shoot-Out mechanism with private valuations is investigated. We identify Knightian Uncertainty about the peer's distribution as the reason for its deterrent effect of an immature dissolving. Modeling uncertainty by a compact...

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Secession and social polarization : evidence from Catalonia

Balcells, Laia; Fernández Albertos, José; Kuo, Alexander - 2021

-intensity violence (i.e. terrorism, civil war) has not yet occurred. …

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The construction of national identities

Almagro, Milena; Andrés-Cerezo, David - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 2, pp. 763-810

This paper explores the dynamics of nation-building policies and the conditions under which a state can promote a shared national identity on its territory. A forward-looking central government that internalizes identity dynamics shapes them by choosing the level of state centralization....

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Networks of dissent : social leaders and protest in an autocracy

Buggle, Johannes; Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2025

This paper examines how network ties between local social leaders influenced the diffusion of mass protests in an autocracy. We focus on the Protestant Church and the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany. To quantify the role of leader networks in protest diffusion, we compile biographical...

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Market behavior in the face of political violence : evidence from Tsarist Russia

Hartwell, Christopher A. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-12

Even efficient financial markets may break down under periods of prolonged stress, especially when the ramification of an event is unclear. Political violence is such an event, sending immediate signals about possible impact on firm valuations but unclear information about the future viability...

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The mental health cost of terrorism : a replication study of Kim and Albert Kim (Health Economics, 2018)

Smith, Tyler; Coupé, Tom - In: International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical … 5 (2021) 1, pp. 1-11

This paper replicates the analysis of Kim and Albert Kim (2018). Kim and Albert Kim (2018) find asizeable and negative impact of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack on various indicators of mentalhealth. Overall, our results confirm the conclusions of Kim and Albert Kim (2018).

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