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Beviá, Carmen; Corchón, Luis C. - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 3, pp. 297-306

In this paper we study a two period contest where the strength of players in the second period depends on the result of the contest in the first stage. We show that in contrast to one-shot contests in the same setting, heterogeneous players exert different efforts in the first stage and rent...

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Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation

Jia, Hao; Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 3, pp. 211-222

and rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify …

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Focused power: Experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points

Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2012

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...

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

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Litigated conflict over fundamental rights: A static model.

Bunting, William J. - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 8 (2013) 2, pp. 5-12

This article introduces a static, within-country, game-theoretic model of litigated conflict over fundamental rights … the extent to which the litigated conflict over fundamental rights in the society is “constitutionalized” is decreased (i …

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Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Collier, Paul; Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Following the wave of democratization during the 1990s, elections are now common in low-income societies. However, these elections are frequently flawed. We investigate the Nigerian general election of 2007, which is to date the largest election held in Africa and one seriously marred by...

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Disagreements in society over linear vs. over nonlinear labour-income tax schedules

Ivanov, Asen - 2024

I investigate numerically the following question: Given that individuals with different wages disagree over the optimal labour-income tax schedule, how would such disagreements be affected if society restricted itself to using linear tax schedules? I find that there would be (i) a decrease in...

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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2015

We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

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