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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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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia - 2013

conflict and more intense fighting …

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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict

Krieger, Tim - 2016

We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Mobility and Conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2021

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

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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 …

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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...

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The Costs of Organized Violence: A Review of the Evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - CESifo - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized … of organized conflict and violence are aggregated. …

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Suicide Terrorism and the Weakest Link

Arce, Daniel G.; Dan Kovenock J.; Roberson, Brian - CESifo - 2009

In this paper we examine a model of terrorism which focuses on the tradeoffs facing a terrorist organization that has the ability to utilize either or both suicide and conventional terrorism tactics. The terrorist organization’s objective is to successfully attack at least one target. Success...

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