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Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2012

the holdup problem. -- Conflict ; contest ; alliance ; hold-up problem ; experiment …

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Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2021

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 …

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An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2021

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...

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Inverse Campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. - 2021

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A's policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

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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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Secession and social polarization : evidence from Catalonia

Balcells, Laia; Fernández Albertos, José; Kuo, Alexander - 2021

polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that …

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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2015

We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution

Pérez Oviedo, Wilson - 2004

In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...

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Minority salience and political extremism

Colussi, Tommaso; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2016

This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political...

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