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Liberalizing Russian gas markets : an economic analysis
Aune, Finn Roar; Golombek, Rolf; Hallre, Hilde; Moe, Arild - 2015
purpose, we use a detailed numerical model for the energy markets in Europe and Russia - LIBEMOD. Our results suggest that … removing implicit subsidies to Russian gas consumers will have substantial impacts on total consumption of gas in Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533092
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Wars of conquest and independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754525
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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014
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 in-fluences 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/10010467392
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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452800
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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882556
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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010
across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697819
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The optimal defense of network connectivity
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2015
attacker's objective is to destroy a set of nodes that disconnects the network. The conflict at each node is modeled as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405199
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Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?
Gutmann, Jerg; Pitlik, Hans; Fronaschütz, Andrea - 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused disruptions in international trade and highlighted the dependency of small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362395
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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict
Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014
based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371913
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Mining matters : natural resource extraction and local business constraints
Haas, Ralph de; Poelhekke, Steven - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565667