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Extremism Drives Out Moderation
Klose, Bettina S. - 2012
, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …
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Conflicts with Multiple Battlefields
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2021
on the technologies of conflict within each battlefield and the nature of economies or diseconomies in how battlefield … out-comes and costs aggregate in determining payoffs in the overall conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316164
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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2021
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
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Equilibrium and Efficiency in the Tug-of-War
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - CESifo - 2005
by which the allocation of prizes are governed by possibly repeated conflict. Our results contribute to an explanation … why. Compared to a single-stage conflict, such structures can reduce the overall resources that are dissipated among the …
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