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Quérou, Nicolas - 2010

protocol or a conflict to appropriate the surplus. In the cooperative negotiations, disagreement corresponds to a pro rata … which conflict will be preferred to negotiated agreements (and vice versa), and we derive welfare implications. Finally, we …

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The Grand Experiment of Communism : Discovering the Trade-Off between Equality and Efficiency

Farvaque, Étienne; Mihailov, Alexander; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

conflict through the interaction between leaders with economic power and followers with ideological determination. The …

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Citizens’ Protests : causes and consequences. A Research on Regime Change and Revolutionary Entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita

Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022

Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens’ protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing...

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Oil Revenues, Ethnic Fragmentation and Political Transition of Authoritarian Regimes

Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2013

Natural resources are generally associated to negative effects on the political environment of a country. This paper explores the impact that oil revenues have on the establishment of a given political system. Based on previous literature, a political economy perspective is employed. A simple...

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River Sharing and Water Trade

Ansink, Erik; Gengenbach, Michael F.; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2012

We analyze river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite...

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Multilateral Bargaining in Networks : On the Prevalence of Inefficiencies

Lee, Joosung - 2015

We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out their communication links with upfront transfers....

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Under-Connected and Over-Connected Networks

Buechel, Berno - 2009

, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between …

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Religious Organizations

Levy, Gilat; Razin, Ronny - 2010

We propose a model of religious organizations which relies on the ability of such organizations and personal utility shocks. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously and characterize their features. Specifically, we find that members of the religious organization share similar...

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Using the Law to Change the Custom

Aldashev, Gani; Chaara, Imane; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; … - 2010

We build a simple model of legal dualism in which a pro-poor legal reform, under certain conditions, causes the conflicting custom to go some way toward producing the change intended by the legislator. It then acts as an "outside anchor" that exerts a "magnet effect" on the custom. We illustrate...

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Rent Seekers in Rentier States : When Greed Brings Peace

Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … activate more interest groups in a power struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact …

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