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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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Equilibrium in the symmetric Hirshleifer contest: Uniqueness and characterization

Ewerhart, Christian; Sun, Guang-Zhen - 2018

The symmetric two-player Hirshleifer (1989) contest is shown to admit a unique equilibrium. The support of the equilibrium strategy is finite and includes, in particular, the zero expenditure level. We also establish a lower bound for the cardinality of the support and an upper bound for the...

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Minority salience and political extremism

Colussi, Tommaso; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2019

We investigate how changes in the salience of a minority group affect the majority group's voting behavior. Specifically, we focus on Muslim communities and their increased salience in daily life during Ramadan. To estimate a causal effect, we exploit exogenous variation in the distance of...

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On the micro-foundations of contract versus conflict with implications for international peace-making

Cuesta, José A.; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2008

This paper expands the micro-foundations of the traditional greed and grievance non-cooperative model of civil conflict between a government and a rebel group. First, the paper's model allows for greed and grievance to be orthogonal, so that they may affect each other. Second, the model allows...

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Democracy with group identity

Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can …

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A Tragic Solution to the Collective Action Problem: Implications for Corruption, Conflict and Inequality

Nieva, Ricardo - 2020

We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...

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The n-player Hirshleifer contest

Ewerhart, Christian; Sun, Guang-Zhen - 2020

We characterize the equilibrium set of the n-player Hirshleifer contest with homogeneous valuations. A symmetric equilibrium always exists. It necessarily corresponds to multilateral peace for sufficient noise and uses finite-support randomized strategies otherwise. Asymmetric equilibria are...

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Majoritarian politics and hate crimes against religious minorities in India, 2009-2018

Basu, Deepankar - 2019

Using a state-level panel data set on the incidence of hate crimes in India, this paper implements difference in difference (DID) and triple difference in difference (DDD) research designs to estimate the causal impact of the right-wing BJP's win in the 2014 parliamentary elections on hate...

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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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Dancing with the populist: New parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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