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Information alliances in contests with budget limits

Konrad, Kai A. - 2010

We study the role of information exchange through alliances in a framework with contestants who have binding budget … for the Bayesian Nash equilibrium. Then we consider the role of information exchange through alliances. Contestants learn … alliance. Also, a merger between alliances is beneficial for their members. Further, we consider merger between alliances and …

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Strategic aspects of fighting in alliances

Konrad, Kai A. - 2011

This paper surveys some of the strategic aspects that emerge if players fight in an alliance against an enemy. The survey includes the free-rider problem and the hold-up problem that emerges in the baseline model, the role of supermodularity in alliance members' effort contributions, the role of...

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Sinking budgets and ballooning prices: Recent developments connected to military spending

Cusack, Thomas R. - 2006

their own military defense. …

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Terrorism and the state

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and how retaliation affects the outcome. The analysis...

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Information acquisition in conflicts

Morath, Florian; Münster, Johannes - 2009

This paper considers incentives for information acquisition ahead of conflicts. We characterize the (unique) equilibrium of the all-pay auction between two players with one-sided asymmetric information. The type of one player is common knowledge. The type of the other player is drawn from a...

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Altruism and envy in contests: an evolutionarily stable symbiosis

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

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The alliance formation puzzle and capacity constraints

Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - 2008

and explain the formation of alliances. …

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Contests with rank-order spillovers

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Dan; Vries, Casper G. de - 2009

This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player’s strategy generates direct or indirect affine “spillover” effects that depend on the rank-order of her...

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Group contest success functions

Münster, Johannes - 2008

This paper extends the axiomatic characterization of contest success functions of Skaperdas (1996) and Clark and Riis (1998) to contests between groups. – Contest ; conflict ; axiom ; group

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Inverse campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A’s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

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