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The power of money : wealth effects in contest
Schroyen, Fred; Treich, Nicolas - 2016
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Interest-group politics under majority rule
Dougan, William R. - In: Journal of public economics 61 (1996) 1, pp. 49-72
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Strategic political participation and redistribution
Aidt, Toke - In: Economics & politics 14 (2002) 1, pp. 19-40
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Side-Effects of campaign finance reform
Dahm, Matthias (contributor); Porteiro, Nicolás (contributor) - 2005
relevant information, we also assume that lobbies engage in non-negligible informational lobbying. We focus on a single … political decision to be taken and offer a simple model in which the optimal influence strategy is a mixture of both lobbying … lobbying so that less policy relevant information is available and as a result political decisions become less efficient …
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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2009
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show that if donations were prohibited, then a unique equilibrium regarding the platform choices of candidates would exist. Our game with financing of political campaigns exhibits two...
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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2011 - This version: January 2011
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show that if donations were prohibited, then a unique equilibrium regarding the position choices of candidates would exist. With unrestricted financing of political campaigns two...
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Promoting justice by treating people unequally : an experimental study
Becker, Alice; Miller, Luis M. - 2009
Which inequalities among individuals are considered unjust? This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to study distributive choices dealing with arbitrarily unequal initial endowments. In a three-person distribution problem where subjects either know or do not know their...
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The Herodotus Paradox
Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2010
The Babylonian bridal auction, described by Herodotus, is regarded as one of the earliest uses of an auction in history. Yet, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a formal equilibrium analysis of this auction. We provide such an analysis for the two-player case with complete and incomplete...
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Game theoretical, strategic forward contracting in the electricity market
Holmberg, Pär (contributor) - 2008
Forward sales is a credible commitment to aggressive spot market bidding, and it mitigates producers’ market power in electricity markets. Still it can be profitable for a producer to make such a commitment if it results in a soft response from competitors in the spot market (strategies are...
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Fairness and Reciprocity in the Hawk-Dove Game
Neugebauer, Tibor; Poulsen, Anders; Schram, Arthur J.H.C. - 2002
We study fairness and reciprocity in a Hawk-Dove game. This alllows us to testvarious models in one framework. We observe a large extent of selfish and rationalbehavior. Our results are inconsistent with leading models in this field.
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