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Asymmetric Information and Third-Party Intervention in Civil Wars
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2013
might be the case is not clear. This paper builds a model to explain how a third-party's expected intervention in a conflict … could worsen the conflict. I study a two-period model of conflict (contest) with two combatants and a third party who is an … in the conflict). If the third party will not intervene in a big way, then there exists a unique perfect Bayesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094015
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Existence of a pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium in imperfectly discriminating contests
Wasser, Cédric - 2010
We consider a general class of imperfectly discriminating contests with privately informed players. We show that findings by Athey (2001) imply the existence of a Bayesian Nash equilibrium in monotone pure strategies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333804
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Rent-seeking Contests under Symmetric and Asymmetric Information
Wasser, Cédric - 2010
We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium strategies and prove their uniqueness. Then, we assume contestants to be privately informed about their costs of effort. We prove existence of a pure-strategy equilibrium and provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334145
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Ordinal cheap talk
Chakraborty, Archishman; Harbaugh, Rick - 2003
Can comparative statements be credible even when absolute statements are not? For instance, can a professor credibly rank different students for a prospective employer even if she has an incentive to exaggerate the merits of each student? Or can an analyst credibly rank different stocks even if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263292
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Rent-seeking contests under symmetric and asymmetric information
Wasser, Cédric - 2010
We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium strategies and prove their uniqueness. Then, we assume contestants to be privately informed about their costs of effort. We prove existence of a pure-strategy equilibrium and provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950459
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Existence of a pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium in imperfectly discriminating contests
Wasser, Cédric - 2010
We consider a general class of imperfectly discriminating contests with privately informed players. We show that findings by Athey (2001) imply the existence of a Bayesian Nash equilibrium in monotone pure strategies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822063
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Asymmetric information and third-party intervention in civil wars
Amegashie, J. Atsu - In: Defence and peace economics 25 (2014) 4, pp. 381-400
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Wars of conquest and independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754525
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Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contests
Chowdhury, Subhasish M. - 2016
This article examines behavior in two-person constant-sum Colonel Blotto games in which each player maximizes the expected total value of the battlefields won. A lottery contest success function is employed in each battlefield. Recent experimental research on such games provides only partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984886
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Mechanisms for efficient voting with private information about preferences
Engelmann, Dirk; Grimm, Veronika - 2008
We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences. With random matching, subjects overwhelmingly follow the dominant strategy to exaggerate their preferences, which leads to inefficiency. We analyze an exogenous linking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299751