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destructive nature of intergroup conflicts. -- Communication ; Conflict ; Experiment ; Rent-seeking …
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that participants in our experiment contribute more with the egalitarian than with the inverse proportional rule. We also …
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In this paper we show experimentally that conditional cooperation, a phenomenon described in the private provision of public goods, is also present in group contests, where participants’ contributions to their group performance partially determines if they overcome a rival group. This...
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effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …
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We experimentally investigate how reputational concerns affect behavior in repeated Tullock contests by comparing expenditures of participants interacting in fixed groups with the expenditures of participants interacting with randomly changing opponents. When participants receive full...
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In an experiment on sequential rent seeking, we find that the theoretically predicted first-mover advantage does not … in experiment, individual behavior is highly reasonable nevertheless, such that subjects appear to play a reduced form of …. Keyword(s): Rent-seeking, Experiment, Reciprocity, Fairness, Exploitation …
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choices from a laboratory experiment. The equilibrium predicts that the large battlefield receives more than a proportional …
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effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …
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provision. We test our model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …
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The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group members in intergroup contests. I find that members follow the nonbinding investment recommendations of their group manager in particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the...
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