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Brothers in Arms: Cooperation in Defence

Hugh-Jones, David; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …-link structure. We test the implications of our model in a laboratory experiment. -- cooperation ; conflict, defence ; signaling …

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Separating the hawks from the doves

Henwood, Keith; Friedman, Daniel; Oprea, Ryan - 2009

Human players in our laboratory experiment converge closely to the symmetric mixed Nash equilibrium when matched in a single population version of the standard Hawk-Dove game. When matched across two populations, the same players show clear movement towards an asymmetric (and very inequitable)...

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Conflict, settlement, and the shadow of the future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

the holdup problem. -- Conflict ; contest ; alliance ; hold-up problem ; experiment …

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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013

We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental three-player contests. We find that players in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending...

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

conflict and more intense fighting. -- conflict ; contest ; alliance ; endogenous internal conflict ; hold-up problem ; non …

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On the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims : An Experimental Study

Herrero, Carmen - 2011

This paper reports an experimental study on three well-known solutions for problems of adjudicating conflicting claims: the constrained equal-awards, the proportional, and the constrained equal-losses rules. We first let subjects play three games designed such that the unique equilibrium...

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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia - 2012

Victorious alliances often fi ght about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fi ght against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions...

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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia - 2013

conflict and more intense fighting …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088227

Predation, efficiency, and inequality

Grossman, Herschel I.; Kim, Minseong - 2002

This paper analyzes a general-equilibrium model in which each person can choose to be either a producer or a predator. This model shows how predation breaks the link between the interpersonal distribution of productive resources and the interpersonal distribution of consumption. Specifically, we...

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