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Self-enforcing collective counterterror retaliation
Oliveira, André L.; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may …-specific benefits from retaliation enjoyed by each coalition member, the relatively lower spillover benefit from retaliation enjoyed by … the anticipated backlash from retaliation, which targets coalition members only. …
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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution
Perez, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
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Existence of a pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium in imperfectly discriminating contests
Wasser, Cédric - 2010
We consider a general class of imperfectly discriminating contests with privately informed players. We show that findings by Athey (2001) imply the existence of a Bayesian Nash equilibrium in monotone pure strategies.
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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265974
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A micro-foundation for non-deterministic contests of the logit form
Dahm, Matthias; Porteiro, Nicolás - 2005
In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called logit" contest success function. We provide a simple micro-foundation...
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More than words: Communication in intergroup conflicts
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies the problem of collective action. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281661
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A micro-foundation for non-deterministic contests of the logit form
Dahm, Matthias (contributor); Porteiro, Nicolás (contributor) - 2005
In models of non-deterministic contest, players exert irreversible effort in order to increase their probability of winning a prize. The most prominent functional form of the win probability in the literature is the so-called "logitʺ contest success function. We provide a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003780397
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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854423
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More than words : communication in intergroup conflicts
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - 2010
Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates or intensifies the problem of collective action. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688486
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Multilateral bargaining in networks : on the prevalence of inefficiencies
Lee, Joosung - 2015
We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out their communication links with upfront transfers....
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