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Preventive wars
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2022
The rise of a new power may lead the dominant power to seek a preventive war. We study this scenario in an experimental two-stage bargaining game. In each stage, the rising power makes a bargaining offer and the declining power must choose whether to accept it or fight. Between the two stages,...
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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict
Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2015
We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …
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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010
across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …
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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2021
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
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Defensive weapons and Star Wars : a supergame with optimal punishments
Giacomello, Giampiero; Lambertini, Luca - 2011
We model the perspective faced by nuclear powers involved in a supergame where nuclear deterrence is used to stabilise … peace. This setting allows us to investigate the bearings of defensive weapons on the effectiveness of deterrence and peace …
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On the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims : An Experimental Study
Herrero, Carmen - 2011
This paper reports an experimental study on three well-known solutions for problems of adjudicating conflicting claims: the constrained equal-awards, the proportional, and the constrained equal-losses rules. We first let subjects play three games designed such that the unique equilibrium...
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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 … to do what is good for the group and contribute to the conflict. On the other hand, if people perceive to be personally …
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Arms races and conflict : experimental evidence
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 131 (2021) 637, pp. 1883-1904
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Heterogeneity and selection in contests
Herbst, Luisa - 2016
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Chapter 6 Arms races and proliferation
Brito, Dagobert L.; Intriligator, Michael D. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 1, (pp. 109-164). 1995
Previous analyses of arms races and proliferation are integrated and extended, building from a treatment of the behavioral foundations of weapons acquisitions to a general theory of arms races, with implications for the role of negotiations, the balance of power, the timing of crises, and...
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