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Values, coordination and rationality : the economy of conventions

Thévenot, Laurent - In: The institutional economics of Russia's transformation, (pp. 21-44). 2005

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Jocul ciclic – Statele Unite ale Americii versus Coreea de Nord din unghiul teoriei mutărilor strategice

Alexandru, Georgescu - In: Revista OEconomica (2011) 04

It is found that the “Theory of Moves” is adequate in a Cold War scenario, with functionally equal participants, such …

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First-mover disadvantage

Mylovanov, Tymofiy - 2006

This note considers a bargaining environment with two-sided asymmetric information and quasilinear preferences in which parties select bargaining mechanism after learning their valuations. I demonstrate that sometimes the buyer achieves a higher ex-ante payoff if the bargaining mechanism is...

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Lies in disguise : a theoretical analysis of cheating

Dufwenberg, Martin <Jr>; Dufwenberg, Martin - 2016

We perform a (psychological) game-theoretic analysis of cheating in the setting proposed by Fischbacher & Föllmi-Heusi (2013). The key assumption, which we refer to as perceived cheating aversion, is that the decision maker derives disutility in proportion to the amount in which he is perceived...

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Do I care if others lie? : current and future effects of delegation of lying

Kandul, Serhiy; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2016

The aim of this study is to find out why people are telling the truth: is it a desire to respect trust, to avoid losses for others, or a mere distaste for lying per se? To answer this question we study a sender-receiver game where it is possible to delegate the act of lying and where it is...

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Attack When the World Is Not Watching? U.S. News and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Durante, Ruben; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2020

Politicians may strategically time unpopular measures to coincide with newsworthy events that distract the media and the public. We test this hypothesis in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We find that Israeli attacks are more likely to occur when U.S. news on the following day...

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War is the Health of the State : The Impact of Military Defense on the History of the United States

Hummel, Jeffrey - 2012

’s ability to provide such protection ultimately rests on its power to wage war. Governments therefore have tended to devote more … resources to war than to anything else. Indeed, prior to the advent of the modern welfare State, they usually spent more on war … than on all other things combined. Governments were essentially war making institutions that did a few other things on the …

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