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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil - 2015
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict influences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030322
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Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2007
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796056
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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2008
such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094272
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Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2008
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168474
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Inter-Group Conflict and Intra-Group Punishment in an Experimental Contest Game
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2007
We study how conflict in a contest game is influenced by rival parties being groups and by group members being able to … punish each other. Our main motivation stems from the analysis of socio-political conflict. The relevant theoretical … prediction in our setting is that conflict expenditures are independent of group size and independent of whether punishment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652414
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The Power of Money: Wealth Effects in Contests.
Schroyen, Fred; Treich, Nicolas - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2013
Two wealth effects typically arise in any contest: i) wealth decreases the marginal cost of effort, but also ii) decreases the marginal benefit of winning the contest. In this paper, we introduce three types of strategic contest models depending on whether the first, second, or both wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818853
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More than Words: Communication in Intergroup Conflicts
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
collective action in the context of finitely repeated intergroup conflict and demonstrate that conflict expenditures are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675292
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Contest Functions: Theoretical Foundations and Issues in Estimation
Jia, Hao; Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2012
rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155517
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Communication in intergroup conflicts
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Sääksvuori, Lauri - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1136-1147
context of a finitely repeated intergroup contest and demonstrate that conflict expenditures are significantly higher if … intergroup conflict and group rent-seeking. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048619
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Contest functions: Theoretical foundations and issues in estimation
Jia, Hao; Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 3, pp. 211-222
and rent-seeking to conflict and sports. We first examine the theoretical foundations of contest functions and classify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051659