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Violent Groups and Police Tactics : Should Tear Gas Make Crime Preventers Cry?
Poutvaara, Panu - 2006
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
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Technological Determinants of the Group-Size Paradox
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2021
The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316067
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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker … plant began paying the two downstream workers for their combined output (team pay). This led to a modest output reduction in …. Workers' behavior before conflict, during conflict, and under team pay is predicted by a model of taste-based discrimination …
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Group Contests with Complementarities in Efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2021
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group...
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - CESifo - 2012
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603853
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Voting on Punishment Systems within a Heterogeneous Group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - CESifo - 2009
We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...
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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
Belloc, Marianna - 2016
This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002947
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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict
Ke, Changxia - 2013
Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088227
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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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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Thöni, Christian - 2014
too. In a gift-exchange experiment with independent payoffs between two agents we find causal evidence for peer effects …
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