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Conflict between Non-Exclusive Groups
Send, Jonas - 2020
How is group conflict over a public-good prize affected when individuals are active members of multiple groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848396
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Cooperation and Conflict : Evidence on Self-Enforcing Arrangements and Heterogeneous Groups
Leeson, Peter T. - 2009
unable to peacefully interact for mutual benefit and are prone to eruptions of violent conflict. This paper maintains that … the amount of such conflict has been dramatically overstated and the occurrence of peaceful interaction dramatically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060665
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Duality of power in the European parliament
Turnovec, František - 2008
Increasing number of studies is focusing attention to constitutional analysis of European Union institutions and distribution of intra-institutional and inter-institutional influence in the European Union decision making. Most of the studies are related to distribution of voting power in the EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322260
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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007
Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264089
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A constitutional theory of the family
Cigno, Alessandro - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267482
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Communication and decision-making in corporate boards
Malenko, Nadya - 2011
Time constraints, managerial power, and reputational concerns can impede board communication. This paper develops a model where board decisions depend on directors' effort in communicating their information to others. I show that directors communicate more effectively when pressure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506636
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A political theory of populism
Acemoglu, Daron; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2011
When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich … right. Truly right-wing politicians respond by choosing more moderate, or even left-of-center policies. This populist bias … to have a hidden right-wing agenda; when there is an intermediate amount of noise in the information that voters receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303068
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Diffusion of behavior in dynamic networks
König, Michael D. - 2016 - This version: March 28, 2016
We analyze binary choice models in communication networks, in which both, the formation of links in the network as well as the action choices are endogenous. We provide a complete characterization of the equilibrium action choices and networks, where agents choose their strategies - actions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444453
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Social mobility and stability of democracy : re-evaluating De Tocqueville
Acemoglu, Daron; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2016
An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when members of a social group expect to join the ranks of other social groups in the near future, they should have less reason to exclude these other groups from the political process. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491901
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Duality of power in the European parliament
Turnovec, František (contributor) - 2008
Increasing number of studies is focusing attention to constitutional analysis of European Union institutions and distribution of intra-institutional and inter-institutional influence in the European Union decision making. Most of the studies are related to distribution of voting power in the EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721298