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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016
A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473683
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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership
Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022
We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229853
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A political theory of Russian orthodoxy : evidence from public goods experiments
Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013
discipline. I argue for the existence of an Eastern Orthodox hierarchy in the Russian bureaucracy that facilitates the delivery … of public goods under conditions of universal discipline and the principalś overfulfillment. Eastern Orthodox hierarchy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009783971
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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 …
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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Citizens' trade-offs in state merger decisions : evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Blesse, Sebastian; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2019
Voters dealing with jurisdictional merger decisions face a trade-off between economies of scale and preference costs. Larger jurisdictions may offer cost advantages, yet the downside is that policies in larger units may be less aligned to voter preferences. Our study is the first to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129397
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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership
Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022
We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551584
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744560
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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests
Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013
may explain their preference to stand alone. -- Endogenous group formation ; contest ; conflict ; alliance ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744563
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Motivated political reasoning: the formation of belief-value constellations
Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021
We study the causal relationship between moral values ("ought" statements) and factual beliefs ("is" statements) and show that, contrary to predictions of orthodox Bayesian models, values exert an influence on beliefs. This effect is mediated by prior political leanings and, thus, contributes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793076