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A micro-foundation for non-deterministic contests of the logit form

Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005

In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called logit" contest success function. We provide a simple micro-foundation...

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Local far-right demonstrations and nationwide public attitudes toward migration

Freitas Monteiro, Teresa; Prömel, Christopher - 2024

One of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce support for their cause if they are perceived as a...

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Proxy wars

Konyukhovskiy, Pavel V.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018

Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct … the double principal-agent relationship predicts the continuation of conflict and thus the emergence of peace. …

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From friends to foes: National identity and collaboration in diverse teams

Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019

conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world's largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …

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Governing structural change and externalities in agriculture: toward a normative institutional economics of rural development

Petrick, Martin - 2004

The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...

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Time Preferences and Bargaining

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian - 2017

This paper presents an analysis of general time preferences in the canonical Rubinstein (1982) model of bargaining, allowing for arbitrarily history-dependent strategies. I derive a simple sufficient structure for optimal punishments and thereby fully characterize (i) the set of equilibrium...

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Conflicts between state and civil society related to infrastructure projects

Hochstetler, Kathryn Ann - 2016

issues per se. Given these characteristics of current community-based conflict, I explore a number of alternatives to current … consent, show potential to productively address state-society conflict on projects, while others - like recent Congressional … efforts to speed licensing - are only likely to displace conflict from institutional to non-institutional processes. …

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The bargaining trap

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian - 2022

I revisit the Rubinstein (1982) model for the classic problem of price hag- gling and show that bargaining can become a 'trap,' where equilibrium leaves one party strictly worse off than if no transaction took place (e.g., the equilibrium price exceeds a buyer's valuation). This arises when one...

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Fairness in Matching Markets: Experimental Evidence

König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023

We investigate fairness preferences in matching mechanisms using a spectator design. Participants choose between the Boston mechanism or the serial dictatorship mechanism (SD) played by others. In our setup, the Boston mechanism generates justified envy, while the strategy-proof SD ensures...

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Mimicking the Opposition: Bismarck's Welfare State and the Rise of the Socialists

Kersting, Felix - 2023

This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...

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