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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822636
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267536
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat - 2006
rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267547
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Cultures, clashes and peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009
ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143
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Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762252
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763535
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Cultures, Clashes and Peace
Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566684
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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph; Mansour, Hani; Rees, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It …-election casualties, which is consistent with the hypothesis that election fraud causes conflict. We conduct several robustness tests and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103267
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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959704
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Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Colussi, Tommaso; Isphording, Ingo E.; Pestel, Nico - 2016
This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653145