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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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This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants’ investment costs affects the competition intensity in a …
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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...
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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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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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We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the...
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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...
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This article investigates the impact of the distribution of preferences on equilibrium behavior in conflicts that are modeled as all-pay auctions with identity-dependent externalities. In this context, we define centrists and radicals using a willingness-to-pay criterion that admits preferences...
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We provide a solution to the free-rider problem in the provision of a public good. To this end we define a biased indirect contribution game which provides the efficient amount of the public good in non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. No confiscatory taxes or other means of coercion are used. We...
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We analyze the revenue-enhancing potential of favoring specific contestants in complete information all-pay auctions and lottery contests with several heterogeneous contestants. Two instruments of favoritism are considered: head starts that are added to the bids of specific contestants and...
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