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On the Strategic Disclosure of Feasible Options in Bargaining
de Clippel, Geoffroy; Eliaz, Kfir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Most of the economic literature on bargaining has focused on situations where the set of possible outcomes is taken as given. This paper is concerned with situations where decision-makers first need to identify the set of feasible outcomes before they bargain over which of them is selected. Our...
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Adversarial and Inquisitorial Procedures in Arbitration
Shin, Hyun Song - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
Should arbitrators adjudicate on the basis of their own investigations, or invite the interested parties to make their cases and decide on the basis of the information so gathered? I call the former the inquisitorial procedure in arbitration and the latter the adversarial procedure. I conduct a...
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Foreign Aid Designed to Diminish Terrorist Atrocities can Increase Them
Mandler, Michael; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
A domestic power faces an enemy and commits terrorist atrocities to increase the likelihood of victory. A foreign patron can grant aid to the power but prefers fewer or no atrocities. The domestic power responds by acquiescing in the creation of uncontrollable paramilitaries that commit even...
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Cheap Talk with Multiple Audiences: an Experimental Analysis
Battaglini, Marco; Makarov, Uliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …
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Communication in Federal Politics: Universalism, Policy Uniformity, and the Optimal Allocation of Fiscal Authority
Kessler, Anke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The paper presents a positive model of communication in federal legislatures to study the incentives of members to … consideration, communication between delegates generally suffers from a bias that make truthful revelation difficult and sometimes …-)centralization, which revisits Oates' decentralization theorem in a world of incomplete information and strategic communication. Empirical …
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Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa
König, Michael; Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from network theory and from the politico-economic theory of conflict. We postulate a Tullock contest success function...
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War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other...
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The Effect of Ethnic Violence on an Export-Oriented Industry
Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of ethnic violence on export-oriented firms and their workers. Following the disputed 2007 Kenyan presidential election, export volumes of flower firms affected by the ensuing violence dropped by 38 percent and worker absence exceeded 50 percent. Large firms...
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Reprisals Remembered: German-Greek Conflict and Car Sales during the Euro Crisis
Fouka, Vasiliki; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
During the Greek debt crisis after 2010, the German government insisted on harsh austerity measures. This led to a rapid cooling of relations between the Greek and German governments. We compile a new index of public acrimony between Germany and Greece based on newspaper reports and internet...
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The Long-Run Effect of 9/11: Terrorism, Backlash, and the Assimilation of Muslim Immigrants in the West
Gould, Eric D; Klor, Esteban F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper investigates whether the 9/11 attacks will have a long-term impact by altering the fertility and assimilation rate of immigrants from Muslim countries in the United States. Terror attacks by Islamic groups are likely to induce a backlash against the Muslim community, and therefore,...
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