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On the production of victory : empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411277
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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543745
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Psychological momentum and gender
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shtudiner, Ze'ev - 2016
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and … contest design are also discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455776
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Politicians, governed vs. non-governed interest groups and rent dissipation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2013
type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent … dissipation is compared under two well-known contest success functions: the generalized logit and the all-pay auction. We also … resources invested in the contest. …
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Strategic compromise, policy bundling and interest group power
Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie; Scervini, Francesco - 2020
-dimensional. This paper models policy formation using a political contest with endogenous policy proposals containing two dimensions … aggressive. In a first stage, the Government proposes a reform over the two policies, and in a second stage engages in a contest …
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Take a chance on ABBA
Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Shapir, Offer Moshe - 2017
should theoretically terminate any advantage to any of the contestants in a sequential pair-wise contest. The tennis tiebreak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704206
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Between-group contests over group-specific public goods with within-group fragmentation
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704216
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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