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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013

may explain their preference to stand alone. -- Endogenous group formation ; contest ; conflict ; alliance ; experiment …

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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions

Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016

A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...

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From friends to foes : national identity and collaboration in diverse teams

Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world’s largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …

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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership

Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022

We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...

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Proxy wars

Konyukhovskiy, Pavel V.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct … the double principal-agent relationship predicts the continuation of conflict and thus the emergence of peace. …

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Pastoral conflicts and (dis)trust : evidence from Nigeria using an instrumental variable approach

Tuki, Daniel - 2023

primarily about competition over land and water resources, morph into religious conflicts. Using novel survey data collected … Bedingungen diese Konflikte, bei denen es in erster Linie um den Wettbewerb um Land- und Wasserressourcen geht, in religiöse …

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Citizens' trade-offs in state merger decisions : evidence from a randomized survey experiment

Blesse, Sebastian; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2019

Voters dealing with jurisdictional merger decisions face a trade-off between economies of scale and preference costs. Larger jurisdictions may offer cost advantages, yet the downside is that policies in larger units may be less aligned to voter preferences. Our study is the first to provide...

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Motivated political reasoning: the formation of belief-value constellations

Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021

We study the causal relationship between moral values ("ought" statements) and factual beliefs ("is" statements) and show that, contrary to predictions of orthodox Bayesian models, values exert an influence on beliefs. This effect is mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to...

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Biases in fiscal multiplier estimates

Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2019

The "true" size of fiscal multipliers is widely debated by economists and policy makers as large (small) multipliers provide arguments to expand (cut) public spending. Within a meta-analytical framework, we ask whether the large observed variance in multiplier estimates can be explained by the...

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Democratisation versus accountability - should the European Parliament be given more powers?

Schwager, Robert - 1999

This paper challenges the assertion that European politics would be closer to the citizens' preferences if decision power were transferred from the Council of Ministers to the European Parliament. On the one hand, citizens benefit from a greater transparency in the Parliamentś debates compared...

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