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Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012

conflict and more intense fighting. …

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Amegashie, J. Atsu; Runkel, Marco - CESifo - 2008

We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show …-Palestinian conflict. We also discuss the implications of revenge-dependent preferences for welfare economics and their strategic value as …

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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2008

such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

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Third-Party Intervention in Conflicts and the Indirect Samaritan's Dilemma

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2009

I study a two-period model of conflict with two combatants and a third party who is an ally of one of the combatants …. There exist perfect Bayesian equilibria in which the third party’s intervention worsens the conflict by energizing her ally … to withdraw from or stay in the conflict is based on her prior beliefs and not on the current conditions of the conflict …

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Brothers in Arms - An Experiment on the Alliance Puzzle

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2010

outside enemy, ‘brothers in arms’ may already anticipate future internal conflict about dividing the spoils of winning …; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest …

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An Empirical Inquiry into the Nature of Welfarism

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana - CESifo - 2011

Economists typically evaluate policies based on how such policies affect individuals’ utilities. We follow this approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA’s espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we take a nuanced view by investigating the type of...

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Equilibrium and Efficiency in the Tug-of-War

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - CESifo - 2005

by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single-stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …

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Incomplete Property Rights and Overinvestment

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2009

I consider a model in which an asset owner must decide how much to invest in his asset mindful of the fact that an encroacher’s valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner’s investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the...

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Reform, Uncertainty and Spillovers - A Gravity Model Approach

Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - CESifo - 2012

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - CESifo - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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