Auch wenn die Sanktionen gegen Russland bis jetzt nicht die erhoffte politische Wirkung erzielt haben, lässt das, nach Ansicht von Thieß Petersen, Bertelsmann Stiftung, nicht auf ein Scheitern dieser Sanktionen schließen. Die Sanktionen zeigten bereits ökonomische Wirkungen, wobei die...

Damage created by an export embargo on exhaustible resources is typically much smaller than the foregone revenues. Sanctions prompt the sanctioned country to extract resources later. With competitive resource markets, sanctions create no costs-to any of the countries. With non-price takers, the...

We study the long-run stochastic stability properties of volunteering strategies in finite populations. We allow for mixed strategies, characterized by the probability that a player may not volunteer. A pairwise comparison of evolutionary strategies shows that the strategy with a lower...

We study self-selection into earning money in an honest or dishonest fashion based on individuals' attitudes toward truthful reporting. We propose a decision-theoretic framework where individuals' willingness to pay for honest earnings is determined by their (behavioral) lying costs. Our...

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...

The generic alliance game considers players in an alliance who fight against an external enemy. After victory, the alliance may break up, and its members fight against each other about the spoils of the victory. Our experimental analysis of this game shows: In-group solidarity vanishes after the...