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Gradualism and Uncertainty in International Union Formation
Konstantinidis, Nikitas - 2021
coalition formation among three countries in order to examine the endogenous strategic considerations in the creation and … enlargement of international unions. Why would we observe a gradualist approach in the formation of the grand coalition even if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316888
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Strategic Delegation in the Formation of Modest International Environmental Agreements
Spycher, Sarah; Winkler, Ralph - 2021
policy. To this end, we expand the modest coalition formation game, in which countries first decide on whether to join an … and emissions. We find that strategic delegation crowds out all efforts to increase coalition sizes by less ambitious …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314772
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Bargaining With Charitable Promises : True Preferences and Strategic Behavior
Lange, Andreas; Schwirplies, Claudia - 2021
We report experimental findings on the role of charitable promises in bargaining settings. We vary the enforceability of such promises within variants of ultimatum games where the proposer suggest a split between himself, the responder and a charitable donation. By reneging on initial pledges,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223664
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Ultimatum Game Behavior in a Social-Preferences Vacuum Chamber
Benndorf, Volker; Brinkhaus, Thomas Große; von … - 2021
We study strategic interaction in an experimental social-preferences vacuum chamber. We mute social preferences by letting participants knowingly interact with computers. Our new design allows for indirect strategic interaction: there are several waves in which computer players inherit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213777
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Voting Advice Applications and Elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249647
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Judiciaries in Corrupt Societies
Priks, Mikael - 2021
Recent empirical work shows that judicial dependence can explain high levels of corruption. This paper examines how the dependence of judiciaries influences corruption at different levels of the government in a model where the central government, low-level officials, and the judiciary are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317025
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The bail-out! Positive political economics of greek-type crises in the EMU
Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - 2010
The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU's present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274897
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Too Big to Prevail : The Paradox of Power in Coalition Formation
Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Newell, Anthony; Page, Lionel - 2021
In standard coalition games, players try to form a coalition to secure a prize and a coalition agreement specifies how … of the prize often takes place after the coalition formation stage. This creates the possibility for some players to ask … strategic disadvantage: a greater voting power in forming a winning coalition is undermined by the threat of being overly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235112
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A Paradox of Coalition Building in Public Good Provision
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Hattori, Keisuke - 2021
This paper considers endogenous coalition formations and endogenous technology choices in a model of private provision … contributions by a strategic incentive to adopt lower technology to motivate coalition building by other nations, which in the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323874
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Gradualism and uncertainty in international union formation
Konstantinidis, Nikitas - 2007
coalition formation among three countries in order to examine the endogenous strategic considerations in the creation and … enlargement of international unions. Why would we observe a gradualist approach in the formation of the grand coalition even if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264190