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Epstein, Gil S.; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2002

clarify how stake asymmetry, lobbying-skill asymmetry and return to lobbying effort determine the relative desirability, from …

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Difference-Form Group Contests

Cubel, Maria - 2014

Contests are situations in which a set of agents compete for a valuable object, rent or award. The present paper analyzes difference-form group contests, that is, contests fought among groups and where their probability of victory depends on the difference of their effective efforts. First, we...

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Coopetition in Group Contest

Kiss, Hubert Janos - 2019

There are situations in which competitors ally to pursue a common objective. This simultaneous presence of cooperation and competition is called coopetition and we study it theoretically and experimentally in a group contest setup. More concretely, we analyze a group contest with a new sharing...

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Buying supermajorities in the lab

Fehrler, Sebastian; Schneider, Maik T. - 2019

Many decisions taken in legislatures or committees are subject to lobbying efforts. A seminal contribution to the … literature on vote-buying is the legislative lobbying model pioneered by Groseclose and Snyder (1996), which predicts that … also provide supporting evidence for most comparative statics predictions of the legislative lobbying model with respect to …

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Rent seeking in sequential group contests

Gürtler, Oliver (contributor) - 2005

In this paper, a group contest is analyzed, where the groups are allowed to determine their sharing rules either sequentially or simultaneously. It is found that in case the more numerous group determines its sharing rule prior to the smaller group, rent dissipation in the group contest is...

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Management impact in an experimental intergroup contest : conference paper

Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2013 - Preliminary draft

The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group members in intergroup contests. I find that members follow the nonbinding investment recommendations of their group manager in particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the...

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Sharing the effort costs in group contests

Vázquez-Sedano, Alexis - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 18 (2018) 1, pp. 1-21

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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 118 (2016) 4, pp. 816-840

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The influence of political pressure groups on the stability of international environmental agreements

Hagen, Achim; Altamirano Cabrera, Juan Carlos; Weikard, … - 2016

lobbying are not restricted to the lobby's host-country but spill over to other member countries and have ambiguous effects on …

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Conflict between non-exclusive groups

Send, Jonas - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 177 (2020), pp. 858-874

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