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A New Approach to Solving Production-Appropriation Games with Many Heterogeneous Players
Cornes, Richard C.; Hartley, Roger; Tamura, Yuji - 2021
We set out a model of production and appropriation involving many players, who differ with respect to both resource endowments and productivities. We write down the model in a novel way that permits our analysis to avoid the proliferation of dimensions associated with the best response function...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316350
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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil - 2015
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict influences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030322
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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design : Is There a Neeskens-Effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2021
We document an increase in the scoring probability from penalties in soccer, which separates the time period before 1974 significantly from that after 1976: the scoring probability increased by 11%. We explain this finding by arguing that the institution of penalty-shooting before 1974 is best...
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017
systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly … polarization and test its predictive power in explaining the likelihood of civil conflict and civil war, analyzing 146 countries … educational polarization is associated with a 4.6 and 3.8 percentage point rise in the chances of civil conflict and civil war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964049
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Climate Policy and Development
Gersbach, Hans - 2015
We propose a development-compatible refunding system designed to mitigate climate change. Industrial countries pay an initial fee into a global fund. Each country chooses its national carbon tax. Part of the global fund is refunded to developing and industrial countries, in proportion to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039305
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Aid, Growth and Devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316311
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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010
This paper experimentally examines behavior in a two-player game of attack and defense of a weakest-link network of targets, in which the attacker's objective is to successfully attack at least one target and the defender's objective is diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136881
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The Optimal Defense of Network Connectivity
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2016
attacker's objective is to destroy a set of nodes that disconnects the network. The conflict at each node is modeled as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000824
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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games
Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2015
In this paper, we generalize the General Lotto game and the Colonel Blotto game to allow for battlefield valuations that are heterogeneous across battlefields and asymmetric across players, and for the players to have asymmetric resource constraints. We completely characterize Nash equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023918