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A tragic solution to the collective action problem : implication for corruption, conflict and inequality

Nieva, Ricardo - 2020

the enforcer in conflict increases the group probability of winning only if the prize valuation of the enforcer is lower … which have been shown to form together with conflict and inequality endogenously; otherwise, this occurs with non corrupt …

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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020

variation of elected competitors by investigating changes in competition induced by legislators who leave parliament during the … inclusion of other measures for political competition. …

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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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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution

Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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Disagreements in society over linear vs. over nonlinear labour-income tax schedules

Ivanov, Asen - 2024

I investigate numerically the following question: Given that individuals with different wages disagree over the optimal labour-income tax schedule, how would such disagreements be affected if society restricted itself to using linear tax schedules? I find that there would be (i) a decrease in...

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Voluntary agreements under endogenous legislative threats

Glachant, Matthieu - 2003

The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota. Both the threat and its probability of implementation are...

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Group bargaining and conflict

Quérou, Nicolas - 2010

protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we … their relative size on the profitability of negotiated agreements. -- Bargaining ; Conflict ; Agency Problem …

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Rent seekers in rentier states : when greed brings peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … activate more interest groups in a power struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact …

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On the stability of hierarchies in games with externalities

Currarini, Sergio - 2003

We study the group stability of collective decision making when society is organized according to a non directed graph, and groups' payoff possibilities are given by a partition function. We focus on the stability properties of hierarchical organizations, formally described by minimally...

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