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Contest with Attack and Defence: Does Negative Campaigning Increase or Decrease Voters’ Turnout?
Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2005
the defence of the opponent. This model has many applications like political campaigning, wars, competition among lobbies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312400
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - 2004
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261982
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017 - Last Revision: January 20, 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588398
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Potterian economics
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2017 - Last revision: January 20, 2017
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590696
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198496
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Tug-of-War : why and when teams get embroiled in power struggles
Bunderen, Lisanne van - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864287
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734516
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The Lifeboat Problem
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
We study an all-pay contest with multiple identical prizes ("lifeboat seats"). Prizes are partitioned into subsets of prizes ("lifeboats"). Players play a twostage game. First, each player chooses an element of the partition ("a lifeboat"). Then each player competes for a prize in the subset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119516
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The lifeboat problem
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Daniel J. - 2011
We study an all-pay contest with multiple identical prizes ("lifeboat seats"). Prizes are partitioned into subsets of prizes ("lifeboats"). Players play a two-stage game. First, each player chooses an element of the partition ("a lifeboat"). Then each player competes for a prize in the subset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407607
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Dynamic Contests
Konrad, Kai A. - 2011
efforts often falls considerably short of the prize that is at stake. It may cause violent conflict in early rounds, but may …
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