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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution
Perez, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these …
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307292
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Farsighted Stability with Heterogeneous Expectations
Bloch, Francis; van den Nouweland, Anne - 2017
This paper analyzes farsighted stable sets when agents have heterogeneous expectations over the dominance paths. We consider expectation functions satisfying two properties of path-persistence and consistency. We show that farsighted stable sets with heterogeneous expectations always exist and...
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Contest with Attack and Defence: Does Negative Campaigning Increase or Decrease Voters’ Turnout?
Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2005
We present a general model of two players contest with two types of efforts. Contrary to the classical models of contest, where each player chooses a unique effort, and where the outcome depends on the efforts of all the players, contestants are allowed to reduce the effort of the opponent....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312400
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Bicameralism and Government Formation
Merlo, Antonio; Diermeier, Daniel; Eraslan, Hülya - 2004
In this paper we present a structural approach to the study of government formation in multi-party parliamentary democracies. The approach is based on the estimation of a stochastic bargaining model which we use to investigate the effects of specific institutional features of parliamentary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324963
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Special Interests and Technological Change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2003
technologies. A conflict is shown to arise between the young and the old, because the former favor innovation while the latter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325072
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Group bargaining and conflict
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272404
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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 … destabilize society. However, there is a large literature on how so-called rentier states manage to pacify opposition groups by … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability …
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Networks of Military Alliances, Wars, and International Trade
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen - 2014
We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if there is some fully-allied group of countries that can defeat that country and its (remaining) allies based on a function of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398408
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Limits to climate change
Chander, Parkash; Tulkens, Henry - 2001
change. It also explores the possibility of cooperation and attainment of an optimal steady state. It is shown that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608804