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conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to … quantify the role of social, identity-driven, costs for performance and formation of diverse teams. Using microdata from GitHub …, the world’s largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that …
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Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen significantly during the last decade, no study has, to the best of my knowledge, examined how these conflicts influence distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and the...
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no incentive to exclude bidders, even if they are nearly certain to default; (iii) buyer reputation systems reward … bidders with a reputation for defaulting, counter to the idea of deterring such behavior. Our auction experiments support …
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Imitating the best strategy from the previous period has been shown to be an important heuristic, in particular in relatively complex environments. In this experiment we test whether subjects are more likely to use imitation if they are under stress. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly....
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While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...
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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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While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369063
We study a version of a canonical model of attacks against political regimes where agents have an expressive utility for taking political stances that is scaled by the salience of political decision-making. Increases in political salience can have divergent effects on regime stability depending...
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We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents' expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives, and we show that comparative statics in salience...
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attention to reputation for quality. This provides empirical support to recent models in behavioral industrial organization that …
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