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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Zultan, Ro'i - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one’s own influence on...
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Rent seeking and regime stability in rentier states
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 740-748
Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact promote regime stability. The peaceful …
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Changing Threat Perceptions and the Efficient Provisioning of International Security
Gupta, Rupayan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper extends Gupta (2010), which proposes a mechanism for the structuring of international institutions for the efficient provision of global security. In that paper, the level of threat by a rogue nation was assumed as being exogenously determined. This paper uses a similar framework to...
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413959
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452045
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534
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Publicness of goods and violent conflict: Evidence from Colombia
Cortes, Darwin; Montolio, Daniel - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2013
AbstractHow the degree of publicness of goods affect violent conflict? Based on the theoretical model in Esteban and Ray (2001) we find that the effect of the degree of publicness depends on the group size. When the group is small (large), the degree of publicness increases (decreases) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763235
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Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2007
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652414
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Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2007
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851463
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Parochial altruism in inter-group conflicts
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 45-48
We investigate parochial altruism, the combination of in-group altruism and out-group hostility, in an experimental conflict game preceded by a prisoner’s dilemma. Our data are consistent with parochial altruism, but cannot be explained by in-group pro-sociality or out-group hostility alone.
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