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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - CESifo - 2014

asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and analyze how each group’s internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … (common) collective action technology exhibits a high degree of complementarity. Furthermore, depending on the degree of … complementarity, the stronger player’s relative contribution to external conflict may be higher in a more asymmetric group and, as a …

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Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants’ investment costs affects the competition intensity in a …

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Delegation and Interim Performance Evaluation

Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp Christoph - CESifo - 2013

This paper considers the effects of an interim performance evaluation on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Assuming the agents’ outside option to be determined by market beliefs about their type, interim evaluations (a) provide...

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Delegation and Interim Performance Evaluation

Schuette, Miriam - 2013

This paper considers the effects of an interim performance evaluation on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Assuming the agents' outside option to be determined by market beliefs about their type, interim evaluations (a) provide a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082972

Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Electoral Turnout: An Aggregate Analysis with Precinct-Level Data

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; … - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we perform an empirical analysis to investigate the impact of socio-economic heterogeneity on electoral … results suggest that increased ethnic heterogeneity and reduced social pressure tend to depress turnout. …

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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games

Kosfeld, Michael; Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2006

Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come into existence. In this paper we investigate, both...

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Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games

Kovenock, Dan J.; Roberson, Brian - CESifo - 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...

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Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - CESifo - 2014

We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...

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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Dan Kovenock J.; Sheremeta, … - CESifo - 2009

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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Effort Maximization in Asymmetric N-Person Contest Games

Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - CESifo - 2009

objective of the contest designer is total effort maximization among n heterogeneous players. Heterogeneity of players makes …

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