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More than Words: Communication in Intergroup Conflicts

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies the problem of collective action. We...

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Parametric Contest Success Functions

Rai, Birendra K.; Sarin, Rajiv - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifies the winning probabilities of agents. We provide an axiomatization of two parametric families of CSFâ€™s. In the first, the winning probability of each agent depends on the investments and a vector of...

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Generalized Contest Success Functions

Rai, Birendra K.; Sarin, Rajiv - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifies the winning probabilities of agents. The existing axiomatizations of CSFs assume that contestants can make only one type of investment. This paper generalizes these axiomatizations to the case where each...

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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Murdering Journalists as an Enforcement Mechanism of Corrupt Deals

Freytag, Andreas; Björnskov, C. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Anecdotal evidence suggests that journalists and bureaucrats in some countries are killed when they try to blow the whistle on corruption. We demonstrate in a simple game-theoretical model how murders can serve as an enforcement mechanism of corrupt deals under certain regime assumptions....

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A Theory of Destructive Entrepreneurship

Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete,...

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Das Vertrauensspiel - eine verhaltensorientierte Erklärung

Pasche, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Es besteht empirische Evidenz, dass reale Spieler weitaus mehr Vertrauen und Vertrauenswürdigkeit entwickeln als es nach den Voraussagen der klassischen Spieltheorie rational ist. Das Papier skizziert den Indirekt Evolutionären Ansatz zur Erklärung der Entstehung von Vertrauen nach Güth und...

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Religion and Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Boente, Werner; Tamvada, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision … paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …

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Cultural Effects on Inbound Tourism into the USA: A Gravity Approach

Vietze, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this paper we discuss the effects of cultural - and particular religious - factors on tourist flows into the USA as the world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give evidence that the gravity equation is an adequate...

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Imperfect Recall and Time Inconsistencies: An experimental test of the absentminded driver "paradox"

Levati, Vittoria M.; Uhl, Matthias; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Absentmindedness is a special case of imperfect recall which according to Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) leads to time inconsistencies. Aumann, Hart and Perry (1997a) question their argument and show how dynamic inconsistencies can be resolved. The present paper explores this issue from a...

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Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Oechssler, Jörg; Duersch, Peter; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The question whether a minimum rate of sick pay should be mandated is much debated. We study the effects of this kind of intervention in an experimental labor market that is rich enough to allow for moral hazard, adverse selection, and crowding out of good intentions to occur. We find that...

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