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Dixit, Avinash K.; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2007

Failures of government policies often provoke opposite reactions from citizens; some call for a reversal of the policy while others favor its continuation in stronger form. We offer an explanation of such polarization, based on a natural bimodality of preferences in political and economic...

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Political polarization

Dixit, Avinash K. (contributor); … - 2007 - This revision: April 19, 2007

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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2010

diametrically opposed. We apply two benchmark contest success functions (CSFs): the auction CSF and the lottery CSF. Consistent with …

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The Attack and Defense of Weakest-Link Networks

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2018

We experimentally test the qualitatively different equilibrium predictions of two theoretical models of attack and … successfully and the defender's objective is to defend all targets. The models differ in how the conflict at each target is modeled … — specifically, the lottery and auction contest success functions (CSFs). Consistent with equilibrium in the auction CSF model …

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The Attack and Defense Mechanisms – Perspectives from Behavioral Economics and Game Theory

Chowdhury, Subhasish M. - 2020

This commentary complements the article by De Dreu and Gross (2019) from the perspectives of behavioral economics and game theory. It aims to provide a bridge between the psychology / neuroscience research with that of economic research in attack-and-defense by stipulating relevant literature,...

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Behavior in Contests

Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2014

incorporating behavioral dimensions into the rent-seeking contest, such as (1) the utility of winning, (2) relative payoff …

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The Attack and Defense Games

Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2019

The attack and defense game is a game in which an attacker (a group of attackers) has an incentive to revise the status quo and a defender (a group of defenders) wants to protect it. The asymmetry in objectives creates incompatible interests and results in a mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium....

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