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Brothers in Arms - An Experiment on the Alliance Puzzle

Konrad, Kai A.; Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

The generic alliance game considers players in an alliance who fight against an external enemy. After victory, the alliance may break up, and its members fight against each other about the spoils of the victory. Our experimental analysis of this game shows: In-group solidarity vanishes after the...

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When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

Initiating a conflict is an investment in social, political or economic change. The decision to attack is sequential in time, irreversible and, more important, includes highly uncertain and erratic threats and opportunities yet completely disregarded in confict theory. In this dynamic model of...

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Great Expectations and Hard Times The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Brockhoff, Sarah; Meierrieks, Daniel - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where the...

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Group Identities in Conflicts

Wagener, Andreas; Kolmar, Martin - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011

We analyze the interplay of group identity and inter-group conflict in a contest where each of two conflicting groups … can develop either a group or an individualistic identity. Contest structures impact on the adoption of identities which … themselves influence behavior in the contest. We show the following: If group sizes and contest technologies are similar, group …

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Management Impact in an Experimental Intergroup Contest

Eisenkopf, Gerald - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

lead the groups into different directions but incentivized managers are less capable of inducing very high or low contest …

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International terrorism as a trade impediment?

Gassebner, Martin; Egger, Peter - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

Earlier work established the notion that international terrorism harms international trade. This evidence was based on annual data with responses in the same year as attacks and incidents and on empirical models which ignored general equilibrium effects. We provide evidence that, if at all,...

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The Roots of Islamist Armed Struggle, 1968-2007

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

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Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict

Leßmann, Christian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal conflicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level regional...

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The Rise of Market-Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014

This contribution examines the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It differentiates between level- and rate-of-change-effects associated with market-capitalist development and their respective relationship with anti-U.S. violence. While this contribution argues that higher...

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The Political Economics of Higher Education Finance for Mobile Individuals

Übelmesser, Silke; Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households dffer in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous...

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