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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …
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Political Parties and Network Formation
Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We argue that anti-corruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...
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Legislative Term Limits and State Aid to Local Governments
Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Lewis, William P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, fiscal and demographic factors, we also control for the state tax and expenditure limitations....
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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Assunção, Juliano J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
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Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House of Representatives, which allow us to sidestep the...
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
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Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper discusses the optimal firm size in the presence of influence activities, and the level of individual rent-seeking dependent on the economic situation of the firm. Since firm size has a discouraging effect on the level of individual rent-seeking but also a quantity effect as the number...
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to … increases the likelihood of conflict resolution even when a single pair member has the right to communicate. …
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