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Malthus Meets Luther : The Economics Behind the German Reformation
Curuk, Malik - 2016
The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106913
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia - 2013
conflict and more intense fighting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088227
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315939
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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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Extremism Drives Out Moderation
Klose, Bettina; Dan Kovenock J. - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547898
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Mobility and Conflict
Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - CESifo - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416114
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012
conflict and more intense fighting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603853
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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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Inefficient Group Organization as Optimal Adaption to Dominant Environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498991