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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution

Perez, Wilson - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Rent Seekers in Rentier States: When Greed Brings Peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … activate more interest groups in a power struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact …

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Networks of Military Alliances, Wars, and International Trade

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...

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Group Bargaining and Conflict

Quérou, Nicolas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we …

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Climate Change and Individual Decision Making: An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-interest and Their Interplay

Pongiglione, Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...

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Pollution Control: When, and How, to be Precautious

Athanassoglou, Stergios; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

The precautionary principle (PP) applied to environmental policy stipulates that, in the presence of physical uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive...

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Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets

Kushnir, Alexey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Some labor markets have recently developed formal signalling mechanisms, e.g. the signalling for interviews in the job market for new Ph.D. economists. We evaluate the effect of such mechanisms on two-sided matching markets by considering a game of incomplete information between firms and...

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How to Win Twice at an Auction. On the Incidence of Commissions in Auction Markets

Ginsburgh, Victor; Legros, Patrick; Sahuguet, Nicolas - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by the organizer of an auction. Commissions are similar to taxes imposed on buyers and sellers and the economic problem that results looks similar to the question of tax incidence in consumer economics. We argue,...

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Oil Revenues, Ethnic Fragmentation and Political Transition of Authoritarian Regimes

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple...

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River Sharing and Water Trade

Ansink, Erik; Gengenbach, Michael; Weikard, Hans-Peter - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

We analyse river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite...

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