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Diffusion of behavior in dynamic networks

König, Michael D. - 2017

We analyze binary choice models in communication networks, in which both, the formation of links in the network as well as the action choices are endogenous. We provide a complete characterization of the equilibrium action choices and networks, where agents choose their strategies - actions and...

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Does revolution change risk attitudes? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Sepahvand, Mohammad H.; Shahbazian, Roujman; Swain, … - 2019

A popular uprising in 2014, led to a revolution overthrowing the sitting president of Burkina Faso. We investigate if … individuals' risk attitudes changed due to this revolution. Specifically, we investigate the impact of the revolution on risk … the revolution. Our results suggest that the impact of the revolution is short-term. Individuals become risk averse during …

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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 … this paper is to analyze causes and consequences of citizens' protests, focusing on how private and public information …

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Divided We Fall. Conflicts of Interests Regarding Fiscal Discipline in Municipal Hierarchies

Ellegård, Lina Maria - 2013

Persistent budget deficits are commonly blamed on irresponsible governments. However, even if the government is fiscally responsible, the agents in charge of implementing the budget may be less concerned about fiscal discipline. According to the survey data analyzed in this paper, such conflicts...

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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The set of equilibria in max-min two groups contests with binary actions and a private good prize

Gilli, Mario; Sorrentino, Andrea - 2024

In this paper we consider a deterministic complete information two groups contest where the effort choices made by the teammates are aggregated into group performance by the weakest-link technology (perfect complementarity), that is a "max-min group contest", as defined by Chowdhury et al....

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Effort provision and incentivisation in tullock group-contests with many groups: An explicit characterisation

Bosco, Davide; Gilli, Mario - 2024

We study effort provision and incentivisation in a Tullock group-contest with m Ï 2 groups that differ in size. A novel algorithmic procedure is presented that, under a symmetry assumption, explicitly characterises the equilibrium. Endogenous, optimal incentivisation schemes are then...

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Growing into and out of Social Conflict

Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2002

We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution: while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class are small at low stages of development, a shift towards...

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Bowling for fascism: Social capital and the rise of the Nazi Party

Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014

Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to a growing literature on its "dark side". We examine the role of social capital in the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We analyze Nazi Party entry in a cross-section of cities,...

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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?

Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005

Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions and reduces the free rider problem; however, a substantial amount of punishment is targeted on high contributors. In the experiment reported here, subjects are given the...

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