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Dynamic Behavior and Player Types in Majoritarian Multi-Battle Contests
Gelder, Alan; Kovenock, Dan - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
treatments. Contrary to the theoretical prediction, escalation is the predominant behavior, but last stand and surrendering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150780
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Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Limodio, Nicola - 2019
I present empirical evidence showing that terrorism financing and recruitment promote terrorist attacks. Pakistan … offers an ideal setting for this research due to a natural experiment inducing exogenous variation in terrorism financing. In …, measured by combining dark web data and machine learning. These results suggest that financial counter-terrorism lowers attacks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871053
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How polarization and political instability affect learning through experimentation
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - 2001
In a multiperiod setting, decision-makers can learn about the consequences of their decisions throughexperimentation. In this paper we examine how in a two-party system polarization and political instability affectlearning through experimentation. We distinguish two cases:the decision to be made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316875
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Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs
Millner, Antony; Ollivier, Hélène; Simon, Leo K. - 2014
We consider a two period model in which an incumbent political party chooses the level of a current policy variable unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters payoffs, but they have different beliefs about how policy choices will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366185
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Malevolent governance, intra-group conflict and the paradox of the plenty : an experiment
Puzon, Klarizze Anne; Willinger, Marc - In: Games 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-11
Using a laboratory experiment, we behaviourally study the impact of a sudden increase in the common-pool size on within-group conflict, i.e., the paradox of the plenty. We also consider the potential role of governance in avoiding this paradox. In the first stage, a randomly-chosen leader of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453120
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Policy Experimentation, Political Competition, and Heterogeneous Beliefs
Millner, Antony - 2014
We consider a two period model in which an incumbent political party chooses the level of a current policy variable unilaterally, but faces competition from a political opponent in the future. Both parties care about voters payoffs, but they have different beliefs about how policy choices will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051379
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Can common ownership prevent the tragedy of the commons? : an experimental investigation
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Willinger, Marc - 2019
We study experimentally a two-stage common pool resource game. In the first stage, selected members of the group determine the level of protection for the resource. The protected fraction of the resource is equally shared among group members. In the second stage, the unprotected fraction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289137
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Gender quotas in development programming : null results from a field experiment in Congo
Windt, Peter van der; Humphreys, Macartan; Sanchez de … - 2018
We examine whether gender quotas introduced by development agencies empower women. As part of a development program, an international organization created community management committees in 661 villages to oversee village level program expenditures. In a randomly selected half of these villages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140341
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Who Should Fight? Experimental Evidence on Policy Corrections to the Unequal Costs of U.S. Wars
Goldstein, Daniel A. N.; Stommes, Drew - 2022
The physical costs of war - who fights and experiences casualties - are borne unequally in the United States. Yet, little is known regarding how informing individuals of this disparity affects preferences over how to address it. We introduce a framework of `policy corrections,' which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296007
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Global Security Policies Against Terrorism and the Free Riding Problem : An Experimental Approach
Colombier, Nathalie - 2009
The World Trade Center attack has shed light on the urgent need to implement preventing measures against terrorism and … explain failure in coordination is that collective actions against terrorism may suffer from the well known free riding … deterrence policy and instead invest all its resources in its own national protection or even choose to ignore totally terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154595