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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272662
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Turf Wars
Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - 2014
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468110
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Turf Wars
Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959610
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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking: An empirical analysis
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274570
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Divide et Impera: Negotiating with a Stakeholder
Manzini, Paola - 2002
In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the … remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of public interest, where a strike would impact … on the public at large). Once this is recognised, negotiations ought to account for the interests of such stakeholder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262827
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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286855
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560394
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513229
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214041
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269064