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Adversarial and Inquisitorial Procedures in Arbitration

Shin, Hyun Song - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Should arbitrators adjudicate on the basis of their own investigations, or invite the interested parties to make their cases and decide on the basis of the information so gathered? I call the former the inquisitorial procedure in arbitration and the latter the adversarial procedure. I conduct a...

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Foreign Aid Designed to Diminish Terrorist Atrocities can Increase Them

Mandler, Michael; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

A domestic power faces an enemy and commits terrorist atrocities to increase the likelihood of victory. A foreign patron can grant aid to the power but prefers fewer or no atrocities. The domestic power responds by acquiescing in the creation of uncontrollable paramilitaries that commit even...

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On the Strategic Disclosure of Feasible Options in Bargaining

de Clippel, Geoffroy; Eliaz, Kfir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Most of the economic literature on bargaining has focused on situations where the set of possible outcomes is taken as given. This paper is concerned with situations where decision-makers first need to identify the set of feasible outcomes before they bargain over which of them is selected. Our...

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Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans

Konrad, Kai A.; Leininger, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how norms can solve distributional conflict inside a clan and the efficient coordination of collective action … in a conflict with an external enemy. We characterize a fully non-cooperative equilibrium in a finite game in which a …

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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Jones, Benjamin; Olken, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

contemporary source of institutional change, inform theories of conflict, and show that small sources of randomness can have a …

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Easy Targets and the Timing of Conflict

Bester, Helmut; Konrad, Kai A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Contestants have to choose whether to initiate a contest or war, or whether to remain peaceful for another period. We …

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Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

Glick, Reuven; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of … study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all countries with available data extending back to 1870. Using the …" costs of war, such as lost human capital, as illustrated by case studies of World War I and World War II. …

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Distributional Conflict in Organisations

Inderst, Roman; Mueller, Holger M; Wärneryd, Karl - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

single-tier organizations, even though they offer more scope for organizational conflict and have more executives that can be … influenced. These benefits derive from two effects. First, part of the conflict in multi-divisional organizations takes place on …

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Delay in Contests

Bester, Helmut; Konrad, Kai A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Why is there delay in contests? In this Paper we follow and extend the line of reasoning of Carl von Clausewitz to explain delay. For a given contest technology, delay may occur if there is an asymmetry between defense and attack, if the expected change in relative strengths is moderate, and if...

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External shocks, internal shots: the geography of civil conflicts

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events in Sub-Saharan African countries … country-level, these shocks have an insignificant impact on the overall probability of conflict outbreak, but do affect the … cost theories of war. …

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