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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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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 discouragement effect and increase the designer's revenue. We test these predictions …

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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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All-pay auctions with heterogeneous prizes and partially asymmetric players

Cohen, Chen; Lagziel, David; Levi, Ofer; Sela, Aner - 2020

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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

paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race …

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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

paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race …

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Local far-right demonstrations and nationwide public attitudes toward migration

Freitas Monteiro, Teresa; Prömel, Christopher - 2024

One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce support for their cause if they are perceived as a...

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