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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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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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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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Time preferences and bargaining
Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian - 2017
This paper presents an analysis of general time preferences in the canonical Rubinstein (1982) model of bargaining, allowing for arbitrarily history-dependent strategies. I derive a simple sufficient structure for optimal punishments and thereby fully characterize (i) the set of equilibrium...
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Why should majority voting be unfair?
Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017
The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer, and paradoxically, it disadvantages voters further if they are inequity averse. In practice, however, outcomes are equitable. The present paper analyzes data from a novel...
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Evolutionary determinants of war
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013
This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium outcomes …. Relative advantages in fighting strength are reflected in the equilibrium set of peaceful resource allocations. -- Conflict …
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How Trump triumphed: multi-candidate primaries with buffoons
Castanheira, Micael; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes Josef - 2020
While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...
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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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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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How Trump triumphed : multi-candidate primaries with buffoons
Castanheira, Micael; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes Josef - 2022 - revised September 2022
While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369063