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An experiment on non-zero sum Colonel Blotto games

Hortala-Vallve, Rafael; Llorente-Saguer, Aniol - 2015

We study a version of the Colonel Blotto game where valuations across battlefields are heterogeneous and asymmetric. These games can exhibit unique pure strategy equilibria, some of which are non-monotonic with respect to the battlefield valuations. We test our theoretical predictions in the...

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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?

Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015

This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...

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Tipping points and loss aversion in international environmental agreements

İriş, Doruk; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016

We study the impact of loss-aversion and the threat of catastrophic damages, which we jointly call threshold concerns …, on international environmental agreements. We aim to understand whether a threshold for dangerous climate change is as an …), or low damages (gain domain). Under symmetry, that is when countries display identical degrees of threshold concern, we …

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Networks of many public goods with non-linear best replies

Rébillé, Yann; Richefort, Lionel - 2015

We model a bipartite network in which links connect agents with public goods. Agents play a voluntary contribution game in which they decide how much to contribute to each public good they are connected to. We show that the problem of finding a Nash equilibrium can be posed as a non-linear...

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Dominance solvability of dynamic bargaining games

Tyson, Christopher J. - 2009

We formulate and study a general finite-horizon bargaining game with simultaneous moves and a disagreement outcome that need not be the worst possible result for the agents. Conditions are identified under which the game is dominance solvable in the sense that iterative deletion of weakly...

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Sharing R&D investments in cleaner technologies to mitigate climate change

El-Sayed, Abeer; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2014

This paper examines international cooperation on technological development as an alternative to international cooperation on GHG emission reductions. It is assumed that when countries cooperate they coordinate their investments so as to minimize the agreement costs of controlling emissions and...

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Terms-of-trade and counterterrorism externalities

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2017

This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation that exports a manufactured good to and imports a primary product from a developing nation. A terrorist organization targets both nations and reduces its attacks in response to...

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Stability of climate coalitions in a cartel formation game

Finus, Michael; Ierland, Ekko C. van; Dellink, Rob - 2003

We empirically test stability of climate change coalitions with the STAbility of Coalitions model (STACO). The model comprises twelve world regions and captures important dynamic aspects of the climate change problem. We apply the stability concept of internal and external stability to a cartel...

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How the rules of coalition formation affect stability of international environmental agreements

Finus, Michael; Rundshagen, Bianca - 2003

This paper compares stability of international environmental agreements for six different rules of coalition formation under very general conditions (any type of heterogeneity between countries). The rules can be interpreted as different institutional settings in which treaty formations take...

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New roads to international environmental agreements : the case of global warming

Eyckmans, Johan; Finus, Michael - 2003

We analyze with an integrated assessment model of climate change the formation of interna-tional environmental agreements (IEAs) by applying the widely used concept of inter-nal & external stability and several modifications of it. We relax the assumptions of a single agreement and open...

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