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Does A Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
credibility problem of national governments in other international agreements too. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018180
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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2014
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398525
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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2009
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265974
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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480849
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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games
Kovenock, Dan J.; Roberson, Brian - 2015
In this paper, we generalize the General Lotto game and the Colonel Blotto game to allow for battlefield valuations that are heterogeneous across battlefields and asymmetric across players, and for the players to have asymmetric resource constraints. We completely characterize Nash equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531773
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Self-Allocation in Contests
Bernergard, Axel; Wärneryd, Karl - 2017
We consider contestants who must choose exactly one contest, out of several, to participate in. We show that when the contest technology is of a certain type, or when the number of contestants is large, a self-allocation equilibrium, i.e., one where no contestant would wish to change his choice...
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Tullock Brings Perseverance and Suspense to Tug-of-War
Karagözoglu, Emin; Saglam, Cagri; Turan, Agah R. - 2020
We model the dynamic contest between two players as a game of tug-of-war with a Tullock contest success function (CSF). We show that (pure strategy) Markov perfect equilibrium of this game exists, and it is unique. In this equilibrium - in stark contrast to a model of tug-of-war with an all pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179902
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Extremism drives out moderation
Klose, Bettina; Kovenock, Dan - 2012
This article investigates the impact of the distribution of preferences on equilibrium behavior in conflicts that are modeled as all-pay auctions with identity-dependent externalities. In this context, we define centrists and radicals using a willingness-to-pay criterion that admits preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281941
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Tullock Brings Perseverance and Suspense to Tug-of-War
Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2020
We model the dynamic contest between two players as a game of tug-of-war with a Tullock contest success function (CSF). We show that (pure strategy) Markov perfect equilibrium of this game exists, and it is unique. In this equilibrium - in stark contrast to a model of tug-of-war with an all pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841143