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Stable Alliance Formation in Distributional Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - EconWPA - 2003
advantage in the conflict or that the joint production process exhibits increasing returns. Nor is there any presumption that …, the formation of alliances tends to reduce the severity of the conflict over the contestable resource. Furthermore …, despite the internal conflict that arises among the winning alliance’s members over the distribution of their joint product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126004
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - EconWPA - 2004
dependence upon primary commodity exports and a large diaspora substantially increase the risk of conflict. Inconsistent with the … grievance theory, greater ethnic and religious diversity reduce the risk of conflict. The results are robust to correction for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407738
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Pushing the Prize Up, A Few Notes on Al-Qaeda's Reward Structure and the choice of Casualties
Caruso, Raul; Locatelli, Andrea - EconWPA - 2005
The article aims at suggesting possible conjectures on Al-Qaeda's logic and structure. Even if the organization's secrecy makes any empirical evidence difficult to find, some insight can be provided by economic theory of contests: in this terms, Al-Qaeda can be acknowledged like an agent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408420
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A Very Simple Model of Conflict with Asymmetric Evaluations and Institutional Constraint
Caruso, Raul - EconWPA - 2005
This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … conflict in order to appropriate a positive fraction of a stake. An institutional constraint is modelled through an exogenously … conflicting agents are willing to commit themselves to ease the conflict joining an institutional setting they do not ‘disarm …
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Il concetto di capitale sociale. Una rassegna della letteratura economica, sociologica e politologica
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2004
Con questo articolo si intende offrire una rassegna critica del dibattito in corso da più di un decennio sul concetto di capitale sociale. Gli studi considerati sono suddivisi in base all’aspetto della struttura sociale cui di volta in volta viene accordata maggiore enfasi. La rassegna si...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062452
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Cooperation and Punishment
Thomas, Jonathan P.; Evans, Robert - EconWPA - 2000
We show that, in repeated common interest games without discounting, strong `perturbation implies efficiency' results require that the perturbations must include strategies which are `draconian' in the sense that they are prepared to punish to the maximum extent possible. Moreover, there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407513
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Some Asymptotic Results in Discounted Repeated Games of One-Sided Incomplete Information
Thomas, Jonathan P.; Cripps, Martin - EconWPA - 2000
The paper analyzes the Nash equilibria of two-person discounted repeated games with one-sided incomplete information and known own payoffs. If the informed player is arbitrarily patient relative to the uninformed player, then the characterization for the informed player's payoffs is essentially...
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The Linking of Collective Decisions and Efficiency
Jackson, Matthew O.; Sonnenschein, Hugo F. - EconWPA - 2003
For groups that must make several decisions of similar form, we define a simple and general mechanism that is designed to promote social efficiency. The mechanism links the various decisions by forcing agents to budget their representations of preferences so that the frequency of preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077065
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On the Stability of Group Formation: Managing the Conflict Within
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper develops a positive analysis of stable group formation, highlighting the role of conflict management within … groups. The analysis is based on a model of sequential conflict, starting with a "winner- take-all" contest for control of … joint production process. While reducing the severity of conflict over the contestable resource relative to the case of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125868
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Organizations and Overlapping Generations Games: Memory, Communication, and Altruism
Lagunoff, Roger; Matsui, Akihiko - EconWPA - 2001
This paper studies the role of memory and communication in games between ongoing organizations. In each organization, each individual, upon entry into the game, replaces his predecessor who has the same preferences and faces the same strategic possibilities. Entry across distinct organizations...
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