specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment … following deviations by regular agent is that such actions, by reducing future cooperation, would decrease the amount of …

conflict models. They follow from incorporating positional dynamics into the standard static approach. Such positional dynamics …

, or ideological or class conflict within the elite, etc.), the result suggests a common causal mechanism for these …Why would a political elite voluntarily dilute its political power by extending the franchise? This paper develops a …

I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative …

Throughout history, victory in conflict has created fearsome reputations. With it, the victor ensures greater … motives for conflict. When only victory or defeat is informative, the less scary party may attack to show that they are … tougher than expected. If the occurrence of conflict also conveys information, the scarier party is more likely to attack. By …

study the impact of different time horizons on cooperation in (quasi) continuous time prisoner's dilemmas. We find that … cooperation levels are similar or higher when the horizon is deterministic rather than stochastic.Moreover, a deterministic … deterministic horizon subjects show high initial cooperation and a strong end-of-period reversal to defection. Moreover, they do not …

study the impact of different time horizons on cooperation in (quasi) continuous time prisoner's dilemmas. We find that … cooperation levels are similar or higher when the horizon is deterministic rather than stochastic. Moreover, a deterministic … deterministic horizon subjects show high initial cooperation and a strong end-of-period reversal to defection. Moreover, they do not …