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Bargaining and conflict with up-front investments : how power asymmetries matter

Schaller, Zachary; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2019

-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is … are lower than under Bargaining when one player is much stronger than the other. Second, the probability of the stronger … player winning in Conflict is higher than the share received under Nash bargaining. We thus provide a rationale for conflict …

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From COP21 pledges to a fair 2°C pathway

Babonneau, Frédéric; Haurie, Alain; Vielle, Marc - In: Economics of energy & environmental policy 7 (2018) 2, pp. 69-92

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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation

Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016

Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local environments. Dam projects may further exacerbate already existing problems in trans-boundary rivers. We consider three scenarios of institutional factors: (1) each country pursues...

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Group selection : the quest for social preferences

Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009

This paper surveys the literature on group selection. I describe the early contributions and the group selection controversy. I also describe the main approaches to group selection in the recent literature; fixation, assortative group formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite...

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Speculative trade under unawareness : the infinite case

Meier, Martin; Schipper, Burkhard - 2010 - First draft: March 1, 2007, This draft: February 5, 2010

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Expectation damages and bilateral cooperative investments

Gollery, Daniel - 2012

We examine the efficiency of the standard breach remedy expectation damages in a setting of bilateral cooperative investment by a buyer and a seller. Contracts may specify a required quality level and an upper bound to the cost of production. We find that it is optimal to write an augmented...

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Consuming your way to efficiency : public goods provision through non-distortionary tax lotteries

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013

We revisit the classical result that financing a pure public good through taxation of private consumption is inefficient. To this standard setup we add a consumption contest in which consumers can win a prize. We show that an appropriately chosen contest - which we call a 'tax lottery' - can...

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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

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Arbitration and bargaining across the Pacific

Deck, Cary A.; Farmer, Amy; Zeng, Dao-Zhi - In: Southern economic journal 76 (2009) 1, pp. 183-197

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Reactivity in economic science

Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

There is a fundamental difference between the natural and the social sciences due to reactivity. This difference remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a matter of course that economics should become a natural...

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