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Good governance and good aid allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008
receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268553
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation: Internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
such a competition affects the resources invested by the groups' supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272636
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274640
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274763
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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuel - 2012
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291433
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Understanding the development of fundamentalism
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
groups and the increase in their intensity over time. Competition among fundamentalists makes them more extreme and may lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318337
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Political culture and discrimination in contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations with a specific political culture. The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336030
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation: Internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
such a competition affects the resources invested by the groups' supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336059
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Network Competition and the Timing of Commercials
Epstein, Gil S. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 3, pp. 370-387
the four networks in the United States, we analyze the equilibrium achieved in this network monopolistic competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009214105
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Poverty and governance: The contest for aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008
competition over poverty and governance conducted by a NGO in the allocation of its funds among potential recipient countries. The … competition for aid, and the outcome for the quality of governance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273422