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Free Neighborhood Choice Boosts Socially Optimal Outcomes in Stag-Hunt Coordination Problem

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021

choice affects coordination. In a fixed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the …

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Are Women Less Effective Leaders than Men? Evidence from Experiments Using Coordination Games

Heursen, Lea; Ranehill, Eva; Weber, Roberto - 2021

at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less …

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Division of Labor and the Organization of Knowledge in Production : A Laboratory Experiment

Klockmann, Victor; von Schenk, Alicia; von Siemens, … - 2021

eventually manage to coordinate on an efficient division of labor. Still, we find substantial adoption frictions. Coordination …

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Which conflicts can the European neighbourhood policy help resolve?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2012

Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...

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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012

Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...

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Mining for Peace

Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...

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Network markets and consumer coordination

Ambrus, Attila; Argenziano, Rossella - 2004

interest to do so, and when coordination does not require communication. It is shown that multiple asymmetric networks can …

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Measuring strategic uncertainty in coordination games

Heinemann, Frank; Nagel, Rosemarie; Ockenfels, Peter - 2004

subjective beliefs of players. In a laboratory experiment we measure subjects? certainty equivalents for three coordination games … and one lottery. Behavior in coordination games is related to risk aversion, experience seeking, and age. From the … distribution of certainty equivalents we estimate probabilities for successful coordination in a wide range of games. For many …

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On the research value of large games : natural experiments in Norrath and Camelot

Castronova, Edward - 2005

examines two examples, both of which involve the theory of coordination games: 1) the location of markets inside EverQuest, and … 2) the selection of battlefields inside Dark Age of Camelot. Coordination game theory is quite important to a number of …

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Patent Breadth in an International Setting

Bond, Eric; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017

We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth...

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