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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...
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A Tug-of-War Team Contest
Häfner, Samuel - 2016
This paper analyzes a tug-of-war contest between two teams. In each round of the tug of war a pair of agents from the opposing teams competes in a private value all-pay auction with asymmetric type distributions and effort effectiveness. Whichever team arrives first at a given lead in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003550
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A tug of war team contest
Häfner, Samuel - 2015
This paper analyzes a tug of war contest between two teams. In each round of the tug of war a pair of agents from the opposing teams competes in a private value all-pay auction with asymmetric type distributions and effort effectiveness. Whichever team arrives first at a given lead in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011569681
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All-Pay War
Hodler, Roland - 2013
We study a model of conflicts and wars in which the outcome is uncertain not because of luck on the battlefield as in standard models, but because countries lack information about their opponent. In this model expected resource levels and production and military technologies are common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094827
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Scarcity and appropriative competition
Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - 2002
This paper formalizes the commonsensical hypothesis that resource scarcity causes a large allocation of time and effort to appropriative competition. Our main innovation is to model explicitly the positive intertemporal effect of consumption on the probability of survival. The critical...
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Violence, access, and competition in the market for protection
Rogers, Douglas B.; Smith, Adam; Wilson, Bart J. - In: European journal of political economy 29 (2013), pp. 1-17
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Effects of defensive and proactive measures on competition between terrorist groups
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd - 2021
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Strategic Interaction Between Islamist Terror Groups : A Game Theoretic Approach
Ismael, Nina - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
Introduction -- On Terrorism -- Terrorism as a Mode of Warfare -- The Economics of Terrorism -- Competition Between …This book applies game theory to the phenomenon of terrorism and investigates how the competition for support can … influence the attack behavior of terror organizations. In addition, it examines the economics of terrorism. The so …
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Strategic interaction between Islamist terror groups : a game theoretic approach
Ismael, Nina - 2020
This book applies game theory to the phenomenon of terrorism and investigates how the competition for support can … influence the attack behavior of terror organizations. In addition, it examines the economics of terrorism. The so …-called outbidding theory, which has become increasingly popular within the field of terrorism research, argues that terror groups vying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259521
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Selektiert der Wettbewerb rationales Verhalten?
Pasche, Markus - In: Wettbewerb, Wirtschaftsordnung und Umwelt : Festschrift …, (pp. 11-28). 2004
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