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From friends to foes : national identity and collaboration in diverse teams
Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019
burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139577
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Pastoral conflicts and (dis)trust : evidence from Nigeria using an instrumental variable approach
Tuki, Daniel - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502434
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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : an experiment on voluntary payments, competition, and reputation in markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2017
Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697162
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Aggregating and Updating Information
Salonen, Hannu - 2012
We study information aggregation problems where to a set of measures a single measure of the same dimension is associated. The collection of measures could represent the beliefs of agents about the state of the world, and the aggregate would then represent the beliefs of the population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503027
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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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Imitation under stress
Buckert, Magdalena; Oechssler, Joerg; Schwieren, Christiane - 2014
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457243
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Refugees and social capital : evidence from Northern Lebanon
Hager, Anselm; Valasek, Justin - 2020
conflict, we find that individual proximity to refugees is positively correlated with trust towards refugees, and that …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705183
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011805757
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Evolutionary determinants of war
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013
This paper considers evolutionarily stable decisions about whether to initiate violent conflict rather than accepting a … peaceful resource allocations that are rejected in favor of violent conflict, compared to the Nash equilibrium outcomes …. Relative advantages in fighting strength are reflected in the equilibrium set of peaceful resource allocations. -- Conflict …
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