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Equilibria in secure strategies in the Tullock contest

ISKAKOV, Mikhail; ISKAKOV, Alexey; ZAKHAROV, Alexey - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014

It is well known that a pure-strategy Nash equilibrium does not exist for a two-player rent-seeking contest when the contest success function parameter is greater than two. We analyze the contest using the concept of equilibrium in secure strategies, which is a generalization of the Nash...

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Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa ?

BEHRENS, Kristian; PHOLO BALA, Alain - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

We develop an economic geography model in which mobile skilled workers choose between working in the production sector or becoming part of an unproductive political elite. The elite sets tax rates on skilled and unskilled workers to maximize its own welfare by extracting rents, thereby...

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All-pay auctions with endogenous rewards

BOS, Olivier; RANGER, Martin - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

and differs between the contestants. Some key properties of R&D races, lobbying activity and sport contests are captured …

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Cultural voting : The Eurovision Song Contest

GINSBURGH, Victor; NOURY, Abdul - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

We analyze the voting behavior and ratings of judges in a popular song contest held every year in Europe. The dataset makes it possible to analyze the determinants of success, and gives a rare opportunity to run a direct test of vote trading, or logrolling. Though the votes cast may appear as...

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Experimental results on the roommate problem

MOLIS, Elena; VESZTEG, Robert F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010

We use laboratory experiments to analyze decentralized decision-making in one-sided matching markets. We find that …

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New Upper Bounds for Maximum-Entropy Sampling.

Hoffman, A.; Lee, J.; Williams, J. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2000

We develop and experiment with new upper bounds for the constrained maximum-entropy sampling problem. Our partition …

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Colonial legacy, linguistic disenfranchisement and the civil conflict in Sri Lanka

CASTANEDA DOWER, Paul; GINSBURGH, Victor; WEBER, Shlomo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014

conflict, heavily rely on mechanisms of group identification and often use somewhat arbitrary divisions of a society into … the experience of violence throughout the conflict episode. By examining the protracted war in Sri Lanka and applying … these indices (and their combination) to a data set describing victims of the civil conflict by district and year, we are …

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Myopic or farsighted? An experiment on network formation

KIRCHSTEIGER, Georg; MANTOVANI, Marco; MAULEON, Ana; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2011

agents are farsighted, related stability concepts have been proposed. We design a simple network formation experiment to test …

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Limited farsightedness in network formation

KIRCHSTEIGER, Georg; MANTOVANI, Marco; MAULEON, Ana; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

experiment to test these extreme theories, but find evidence against both of them: the subjects are consistent with an …

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Theoretical and experimental insights on firms’ internationalization decisions under uncertainty

GEORGANTZIS, Nikolaos; moner-colonques, Rafael; ORTS, … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

We revisit and extend previous theoretical work on internationalization decisions by firms which are imperfectly informed on the state of the demand in the market into which they are planning to export or enter through foreign direct investment (FDI). The latter is a costly strategy mitigating...

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