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Ethnic conflicts with informed agents : a cheap talk game with multiple audiences

Basu, Pathikrit; Dutta, Souvik; Shekhar, Suraj - In: Economics letters 184 (2019), pp. 1-3

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Bester, Helmut; Wärneryd, Karl - 2006

potential. Applications include international conflict, litigation, and elections. Even though only a peaceful agreement avoids … a loss of resources, if this loss is small enough, then any contract must assign a positive probability of conflict. We … show how the likelihood of conflict outbreak depends on the distribution of power between the agents and their information …

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Information and racial exclusion

Lundberg, Shelly; Startz, Richard - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 3, pp. 621-642

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Information and racial exclusion

Lundberg, Shelly (contributor); Startz, Richard (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper presents several economic models that explore the relationships between imperfect information, racial income disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect information about the return to transactions...