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Estrada, Fernando - 2010

This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept … of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling/ Nozic/Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict …

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Small states, large unitary states and federations

Wrede, Matthias - 2002

Employing a political-economics approach, this paper compares small states and unions when the former fail to internalize cross-border externalities of publicly provided goods. It discusses two types of unions: federations with more than one level of government and unitary states. While unitary...

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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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Commitment and conflict in multilateral bargaining

Miettinen, Topi; Vanberg, Christoph - 2020

We extend the Baron and Ferejohn (1989) model of multilateral bargaining by allowing the players to attempt commiting to a bargaining position prior to negotiating. If successful, commitment binds a player to reject any proposal which allocates to her a share below a self-imposed threshold. Any...

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Conflict and Conflict Management with Interdependent Instruments and Asymmetric Stakes, the Bad-Cop and the Good-Cop Game

Caruso, Raul - 2006

This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …

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On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers

Congleton, Roger D. - In: Constitutional political economy 24 (2013) 3, pp. 177-198

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Botnet economics and devising defence schemes from attackers’ own reward processes

Pau, Louis-François - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper focuses on botnet economics and design of defensive strategies. It takes the view that by combining scarce information on the attackers’ business models, with rational economic analysis of these business processes, one can identify design rules for economic defense mechanisms which...

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

Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004

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Citizens, Dictators and Networks : A Game Theory Approach

Perez-Oviedo, Wilson Amadeo - 2016

In a society composed of citizens and a dictator: what are the conditions for a successful citizens' revolt? What kind of strategies do governments follow to prevent such revolts? In this paper we argue that the concept of networks is a very powerful tool to understand these issues, as shown...

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What the Enemy Knows : Common Knowledge and the Rationality of War

Chadefaux, Thomas - 2015

conflict. Barring indivisibilities or commitment problems, the literature finds that war can only occur between rational … of explicitly incorporating information structures in bargaining models of conflict …

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