, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 … and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti …

complex interactions of financial and labour market institutions. Countries cluster along different complementary politics …

such positive spin? We use a theoretical model and a laboratory experiment to study the strategic use of vagueness in a … interval that contains her actual type. Theory predicts that when facing a possibly naive receiver, the sender discloses an … interval that separates her from worse types but is upwardly vague. Senders in the experiment adopt this strategy and some …

related testable predictions, and design an experiment based on a variant of the dictator game that tests for empirical …

theory, while sociological theories of social ties and intergroup comparisons suggest that bilateral cooperation can be … strengthened if there exist outsiders that gain from cooperative break down. We investigate this in a laboratory experiment …