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Uncertainty in Conflicts
Prada Sarmiento, Juan David - 2010
conflict is modeled as a Bayesian game on which each player's valuation is drawn independently from arbitrary distributions. We … predictable movements in the conflict's dissipation. We focus on arbitrary contest success functions and arbitrary independent …
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Production and Conflict in Risky Elections
Hausken, Kjell; Ncube, Mthuli - Handelshøgskolen, Universitetet i Stavanger - 2012
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - 2014
What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all …
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When to attack an oppressive government?
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas - 2012
Initiating a conflict is an investment in social, political or economic change. The decision to attack is sequential in … disregarded in conflict theory. In this dynamic model of decision making we focus on the time dimension of an escalating conflict … oppressive government actions may lead to an earlier outbreak of conflict. However, even if latent conflicts are not immediately …
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Multi-battle contests
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Daniel J. - 2006
We study equilibrium in a multistage race in which players compete in a sequence of simultaneous move component contests. Players may win a prize for winning each component contest, as well as a prize for winning the overall race. Each component contest is an all-pay auction with complete...
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Escalation in conflict games : on beliefs and selection
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - In: Experimental economics : a journal of the Economic … 23 (2020) 3, pp. 750-787
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Performance Pay and Risk Aversion
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2006
A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk aversion. There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the first trade-off. Due to lack of...
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Remittances, savings and return migration under uncertainty
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-43
Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty. In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving...
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On the Desirability of Taxing Capital Income to Boost Social Insurance
Schindler, Dirk; Jacobs, Bas - 2010
This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on labor income and savings in a standard two-period life-cycle model with endogenous leisure demands in both periods and non-insurable income risks. Households are subject to skill shocks in both periods of the life-cycle. We allow for completely general...
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Pollution control: When, and how, to be precautious
Athanassoglou, Stergios; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2011
The precautionary principle (PP) applied to environmental policy stipulates that, in the presence of physical uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive...
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