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the opportunity to engage in a sequence of battles in an attempt to win the war. Each battle is an all-pay auction in … states of the game, the 'tipping states', which are determined by the contestants’ relative strengths, their distances to … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation …
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the opportunity to engage in a sequence of battles in an attempt to win the war. Each battle is an all-pay auction in … states of the game, the "tipping states", which are determined by the contestants’ relative strengths, their distances to … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785931
the opportunity to engage in a sequence of battles in an attempt to win the war. Each battle is an all-pay auction in … states of the game: the “tipping states”, which are determined by the contestants’ relative strengths, their distances to … by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835345
component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically and …
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component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically and …
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component contest is an all-pay auction with complete information. We characterize the unique equilibrium analytically and …
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main measures of ethnic heterogeneity are employed in the econometric literature on ethnic diversity and conflict: the Gini … distributional aspect of ethnic diversity is associated with the outbreak of conflict. In this paper we argue that the relative … antagonism, we axiomatically derive a parametric class of indices of conflict potential that ombines the groups' effective power …
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, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …
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We consider the properties of perfectly discriminating contests in which players' abilities are stochastic, but become common knowledge before efforts are expended. Players whose expected ability is lower than that of their rivals may still earn a positive expected payoff from participating in...
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, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547898