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Management impact in an experimental intergroup contest : conference paper

Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2013 - Preliminary draft

The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group members in intergroup contests. I find that members follow the nonbinding investment recommendations of their group manager in particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the...

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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

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The rise of market-capitalism and the roots of anti-American terrorism : conference paper

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2014

This contribution examines the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It differentiates between level …-peace literature coincide with less anti-American terrorism, it also suggests that the process of marketization has inflammatory … effects on anti-American terrorism. Using panel data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution indeed finds …

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International terrorism as a trade impediment? : conference paper

Egger, Peter; Gassebner, Martin - 2014

Earlier work established the notion that international terrorism harms international trade. This evidence was based on … equilibrium effects. We provide evidence that, if at all, international terrorism displays effects on bilateral and multilateral …

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Lottery versus all-pay auction contests : a revenue dominance theorem ; conference paper

Franke, Jörg; Kanzow, Christian; Leininger, Wolfgang; … - 2012

We allow a contest organizer to bias a contest in a discriminatory way; i.e., she can favor specific contestants by designing the contest rule in order to maximize total equilibrium effort (resp. revenue). The two predominant contest regimes are considered, all-pay auctions and lottery contests....

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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests : an experimental analysis ; conference paper

Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of different prize structures on the effort choices of participants in two-stage elimination contests. A format with a single prize is shown to maximize total effort over both stages, but induces low effort in stage 1 and high effort in stage 2. By contrast, a...

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Enlargements and the principles of designing EU : decision-making procedures

Widgrén, Mika - 2003

This paper examines how neutral the current EU decision-making procedures are to membership and how well they obey certain transparent general constitutional principles. The paper evaluates the performance of the procedures by strategic and classical power indices. The main emphasis in the...

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Heterogeneity in rent-seeking contests with multiple stages : theory and experimental evidence ; conference paper

Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - 2014

This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...

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Lobbying and elections : conference paper

Klingelhöfer, Jan - 2013

In using their citizen candidate framework, Besley and Coate (2001) find that if citizen candidates with sufficiently extreme preferences are available, lobbying has no in fluence on equilibrium policy. I show that this result does not hold in a model with ideological parties instead of citizen...

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Countering the financing of terrorism

Biersteker, Thomas J. (ed.); Eckert, Sue E. (ed.); … - 2008

organization of terror in Southeast Asia : the case of Jemaah Islamiyah / Zachary Abuza -- Terrorism, charities and diasporas … Newcomb -- International initiatives to combat the financing of terrorism / Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue E. Eckert, and Peter … : taking stock of efforts to counter the financing of terrorism and recommendations for the way forward / Thomas J. Biersteker …

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