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On the relationship between social distance and threat

Buba, Astrid C.; Hoog, Natascha de - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat …, ingroup and outgroup (OSIO, Schubert and Otten, 2002) as a measure of social distance either before or after the threat … manipulation. Results show significantly differing social distance estimations as a reaction towards the threatening comment …

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Jocul ciclic – Statele Unite ale Americii versus Coreea de Nord din unghiul teoriei mutărilor strategice

Alexandru, Georgescu - In: Revista OEconomica (2011) 04

It is found that the “Theory of Moves” is adequate in a Cold War scenario, with functionally equal participants, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The destabilization of normal incentive systems, under power and information asymmetry, is what prevents an equilibrium from being reached, as...

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Economic Consequences of Global Accounting Convergence: An Experimental Study

Taguchi, Satoshi; Ueeda, Masayuki; Miwa, Kazunori; … - In: The Japanese Accounting Review 3 (2013) December, pp. 103-120

This paper examines whether the movement toward convergence of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has ended. The methodology for this research is based on comparative institutional analysis and experimental game theory. In addition,we adopt a 3×3 coordination game because an...

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Default risk sharing between banks and markets: The contribution of collateralized debt obligations

Franke, Günter; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - Center for Financial Studies - 2005

This paper contributes to the economics of financial institutions risk management by exploring how loan securitization a.ects their default risk, their systematic risk, and their stock prices. In a typical CDO transaction a bank retains through a first loss piece a very high proportion of the...

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Freie Gewerkschaften

Dilger, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2014

Gewerkschaften werden oft von Liberalen und Libertären kritisiert. Dabei sind sie Ausdruck grundlegender Freiheitsrechte, insbesondere der Vereinigungsfreiheit. Auch das Streikrecht ist innerhalb gewisser Grenzen ein legitimes Freiheitsrecht. Eine freie Gesellschaft ist mehr als Marktwirtschaft...

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Editorial for Journal of Human Security Volume 10

Lautensach, Sabina - In: Journal of Human Security 10 (2014) 1, pp. 1-3

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's death on 5 December 2013 and his funeral ten days later were taken as an occasion in the global media to discuss the merits of political leadership for human security, with occasional comments on its pitfalls. This particular leader is not the most politically safe...

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A Review of "Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities"

Fredeen, Arthur L. - In: Journal of Human Security 9 (2013) 1, pp. 27-28

While security of our<em> </em>hominid<em> </em>encampments and settlements must have been at or near the top of our species priorities since our evolution some several hundred thousand years ago, awareness of the magnitude of our alterations, interactions and impacts on our world is a very recent event. Even...

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Fight Alone or Together? The Need to Belong

Ke, Changxia - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2011

This study compares contests with exogenous alliance formation under proportional sharing rules with contests among individual players in a laboratory setting. The standard equilibrium predictions are identical for all players because the proportional rule ensures the same payoff incentives for...

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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2012

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...

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"Success breeds success" or "Pride goes before a fall"? Teams and Individuals in Best-of-Three Contests

Fu, Qiang; Ke, Changxia; Tan, Fangfang - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2013

We study the impact of progress feedback in team-production contests, in which each team member is solely responsible for one part of the production task. Particularly, we employ a real-effort laboratory experiment to examine how team members react to the feedback in team-based (best-of-three)...

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