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democratization, international openness, and conflict. It also reviews studies of political integration and disintegration that focus … discusses recent empirical studies that shed light on the relations among heterogeneity, conflict, and borders. This line of …
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private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The …
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perceive a fundamental parameter with noise. We focus on 2 x 2 coordination games, which generate multiple equilibria when …
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higher payoffs in the game when the talk is one-way as the truthful reports facilitate desired coordination. …
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coordination. In a fixed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the inefficient outcome. In a …
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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...
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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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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 …
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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict … conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …
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