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Inefficient Group Organization as Optimal Adaption to Dominant Environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2021
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (free-riding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government’s taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539434
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Rent-Seeking for Public Goods : Group’s Size and Wealth Heterogeneity
Nupia, Oskar - 2011
In this paper, we study how between-group wealth and size heterogeneity affect success probabilities as well as aggregate rent-seeking efforts when two groups compete for the allocation of a pure public good. Unlike with previous models, we measure the utility cost of rent-seeking in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121117
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A tragic solution to the collective action problem : implication for corruption, conflict and inequality
Nieva, Ricardo - 2020
the enforcer in conflict increases the group probability of winning only if the prize valuation of the enforcer is lower … which have been shown to form together with conflict and inequality endogenously; otherwise, this occurs with non corrupt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203665
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Social Preferences in Inter-Group Conflict
Böhm, Robert - 2017
Identifying who engages in inter-group conflict – and if they do so why – may help to predict and potentially prevent …-group conflict. We derive a typology and measure of group-dependent social preferences from a social preference model. We gather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946905
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Intergroup conflict and intra-group punishment in an experimental contest game
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 420-447
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'A Light Unto the Nations' - The New British Federalism, the Scottish Parliament, and Constitutional Lessons for Multiethnic States
Picker, Colin B. - 2009
This abstract is taken from an article entitled quot;'A Light Unto the Nations' - The New British Federalism, the … our own federalism through examination of another, the Article demonstrates that this new and unique federalism provides … important lessons for regions experiencing ethnic conflict-such as Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Balkans …
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Conflict between Non-Exclusive Groups
Send, Jonas - 2020
How is group conflict over a public-good prize affected when individuals are active members of multiple groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848396
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Contests within and between groups
Bhattacharya, Puja; Rampal, Jeevant - 2019
This paper examines behavior (the oretically and experimentally) in a two-stage group contest where the fi rst stage comprises of intra - group contests, followed by an inter-group contest in the second stage. Rewards accrue only to the members of the winning group in the inter-group contest,...
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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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