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Traits, Imitation, and Evolutionary Dynamics
Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this article, a modelling framework for the information transmission between agents in an evolutionary game setting is proposed. Agents observe traits which reflect past and present behaviour and success of other agents. If agents imitate more successful agents based on these traits, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822056
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744666
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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822338
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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …
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