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Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism

Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where the...

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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Dan Kovenock J.; Sheremeta, … - CESifo - 2009

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...

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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - CESifo - 2010

This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender’s objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...

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How to Share it out: The Value of Information in Teams

Gershkov, Alex; Li, Jianpei; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2014

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes—a ‘team’—as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process....

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Teams and Tournaments in Relational Contracts

Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond - CESifo - 2014

(a). The team’s efficiency may increase considerably with size if outputs are negatively correlated. Under (b) a …

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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance. The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheusser, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - CESifo - 2012

. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …

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Suicide Terrorism and the Weakest Link

Arce, Daniel G.; Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian - CESifo - 2009

In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics. The terrorist organization’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target. Success...

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation

Klose, Bettina; Dan Kovenock J. - CESifo - 2012

, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …

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Mobility and Conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - CESifo - 2012

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

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