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Secession and social polarization : evidence from Catalonia

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

polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that …

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Assortative matching by lottery contests

Cohen, Chen; Rabi, Ishay; Sela, Aner - In: Games 13 (2022) 5, pp. 1-20

We study two-sided matching contests with two sets, A and B, each of which includes a finite number of heterogeneous agents with commonly known types. The agents in each set compete in a lottery (Tullock) contest, and then are assortatively matched, namely, the winner of set A is matched with...

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On the optimal design of biased contests

Fu, Qiang; Wu, Zenan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 4, pp. 1435-1470

This paper explores the optimal design of biased contests. A designer imposes an identity-dependent treatment on contestants, which varies the balance of the playing field. A generalized lottery contest typically yields no closed-form equilibrium solutions, which nullifies the usual implicit...

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Optimal accuracy of unbiased tullock contests with two heterogeneous players

Sahm, Marco - In: Games 13 (2022) 2, pp. 1-6

contest with an all-pay auction equilibrium (r≥2). By contrast, if she aims at maximizing the expected aggregate effort or the …

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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

competition and the intergenerational transmission of identities within the family. We find nation-building efforts are generally … characterized by fast interventions. We show that a zero-sum conflict over resources pushes long-run dynamics toward homogeneous …

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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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Rent dissipation in simple Tullock contests

Dickson, Alex; Mackenzie, Ian A.; Sekeris, Petros - In: Games 13 (2022) 6, pp. 1-11

We investigate observed rent dissipation-the ratio of the total costs of rent seeking to the monetary value of the rent-in winner-take-all and share contests, where preferences are more general than usually assumed in the literature. With concave valuation of the rent, we find that contests can...

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Contests with sequential entry and incomplete information

Deng, Shanglyu; Fu, Qiang; Wu, Zenan; Zhu, Yuxuan - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 19 (2024) 2, pp. 705-742

This paper provides a general study of a contest modeled as a multiplayer incomplete-information, all-pay auction with …

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The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments

Ryvkin, Dmitry; Drugov, Mikhail - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 4, pp. 1587-1626

In winner-take-all tournaments, agents' performance is determined jointly by effort and luck, and the top performer is rewarded. We study the impact of the ''shape of luck'' -- the details of the distribution of performance shocks -- on incentives in such settings. We are concerned with the...

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Consumers' rationality and home-grown values for healthy and environmentally sustainable food

Cerroni, Simone; Watson, Verity; Macdiarmid, Jennie I. - In: Bio-based and applied economics 8 (2019) 2, pp. 101-132

subjects in the second-price Vickrey auction. The impact of deviations from rationality is weaker in the discrete choice …Consumers’ food choices often deviate from rationality. This paper explores whether deviations from rationality impact … that differ in the elicitation technique: secondprice Vickrey auction and discrete choice experiment. For each technique …

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