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The Perks of Being in the Smaller Team: Incentives in Overlapping Contests
March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019
advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for two reasons: First, the incentive to free-ride is smaller in inter …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …
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Alliances in the shadow of conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, academic performance, health status, volume of market transactions, religion, sexual orientation, etc. However, these forms of discrimination are not equally tolerable. For...
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Brothers in arms: An experiment on the alliance puzzle
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2010
; however, this subsequent internal conflict does not discourage alliance members from expending much effort in the contest …
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The Importance of Social Status in a Rent-Seeking Society
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2024
that increases wealth or through a contest in which unproductive (rent-seeking) effort is used to redistribute wealth …
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Democracy and International Conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
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Effort Comparisons for a Class of Four-Player Tournaments
Caglayan, Deren; Karagözoglu, Emin; Keskin, Kerim; … - 2020
We propose a novel tournament design that incorporates the main properties of a round-robin tournament, a Swiss tournament, and a race. Following an equilibrium analysis, we compare 36 tournament structures inherent in our model and several well-known tournament models from the literature, on...
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Lying in Competitive Environments: A Clean Identification of Behavioral Impacts
Dato, Simon; Feess, Eberhard; Nieken, Petra - 2022
.e., succeeding in a competition is valuable per se. We design an experiment that allows us to disentangle financial and psychological …
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Efficiency and Equity: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Rent-Seeking
Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - 2021
.e. a contest against other rent-seekers). At the aggregate level, rent-seeking reduces the available amount of labor in the …
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Induced Price Leadership and (Counter-)Spying Rivals' Play under Incomplete Information
Fan, Cuihong; Jun, Byoung Heon; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2019
We analyze spying out a rival’s price in a Bertrand market game with incomplete information. Spying transforms a simultaneous into a robust sequential moves game. We provide conditions for profitable espionage. The spied at firm may attempt to immunize against spying by delaying its pricing...
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