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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 … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - 2009

. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; contest theory ; multi-dimensional resource allocation ; rent-seeking ; experiments …

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Strategic delegation in the formation of modest international environmental agreements

Spycher, Sarah; Winkler, Ralph - 2021 - This version: December 2020

We reassess the well-known "narrow-but-deep" versus "broad-but-shallow" trade-off in international environmental agreements (IEAs), taking into account the principal-agent relationship induced by the hierarchical structure of international policy. To this end, we expand the modest coalition...

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Minimum participation rules for the provision of public goods

Gerber, Anke; Neitzel, Jakob; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2012

This paper considers the endogenous formation of an institution to provide a public good. If the institution governs only its members, players have an incentive to free ride on the institution formation of others and the social dilemma is simply shifted to a higher level. Addressing this...

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Bayesian repeated games and reputations

Forges, Françoise; Salomon, Antoine - 2014

Under appropriate assumptions (private values and uniform punishments), the Nash equilibria of a Bayesian repeated game without discounting are payoff-equivalent to tractable, completely revealing, equilibria and can be achieved as interim cooperative solutions of the initial Bayesian game. This...

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Negotiating to avoid "gradual" versus "dangerous" climate change : an experimental test of two prisoners' dilemmas

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014

According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize "greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The Framework Convention thus...

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On the sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - 2014

Previous research shows that collective action to avoid a catastrophic threshold, such as a climate "tipping point", is unaffected by uncertainty about the impact of crossing the threshold but that collective action collapses if the location of the threshold is uncertain. Theory suggests that...

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On the efficient provision of public goods by means of lotteries

Franke, Jörg; Leininger, Wolfgang - 2013

We provide a solution to the free-rider problem in the provision of a public good. To this end we define a biased indirect contribution game which provides the efficient amount of the public good in non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. No confiscatory taxes or other means of coercion are used. We...

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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014 - This version: 10 May 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014

We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...

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