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A typology of military conflict based on the Hirshleifer contest
Ewerhart, Christian - 2021
In a canonical model of military conflict, victory and defeat depend stochastically on the difference of resources … deployed by the conflict parties. The present paper offers a comprehensive analysis of that model. The unique Nash equilibrium … conflict and, less often so, of its resolution. The formal derivation exploits the variation-diminishing property of higher …
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Exclusivity of Groups in Contests
Send, Jonas - 2021
I analyse a group contest in which groups decide over two dimensions of membership-exclusivity: whether a member is allowed to join the group at all, and whether this member is allowed to join another group as well. If the prize is mostly private, group leaders do not offer membership in...
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Competition Fosters Trust
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2006
We study the effects of reputation and competition in a stylized market for experience goods. If interaction is … identifiable and can, hence, build a reputation, efficiency quadruples but is still at only a third of the first best. Adding more …
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Wars of conquest and independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
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Can competition reduce conflict?
Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; … - 2023
We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict … otherwise divided communities and boosting village identity relative to ethnic identity. …
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Electoral competition under media influence
Bräuer, Wolfgang - 1998
We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The classical one-dimensional competition model is changed by introducing an issue-specific sensibility-coefficient and by allowing for non-voting. The winner is selected by majority...
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Inefficient group organization as optimal adaption to dominant environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
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Mobility and conflict
Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012
We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280829
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Information acquisition in conflicts
Morath, Florian; Münster, Johannes - 2010
This paper considers incentives for information acquisition ahead of conflicts. First, we characterize the (unique) equilibrium of the all-pay auction between two players with one-sided asymmetric information where one player has private information about his valuation. Then, we use ou rresults...
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Mobility and conflict
Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2012
We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489032