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The Forest as a Resource. Conflicts in the Northern Sweden Wooded land in the 19th century

Axelsson, Ewa - 2014

The Forest as a Resource. Conflicts in the Northern Sweden Wooded land in the 19th century The forest as a resource … economy during the 19th century. This paper will analyze some of the conflicts regarding property rights by focusing on …

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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 …

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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization

Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of geography on the transition process in authoritarian political regimes, and to investigate the nature of the links between political change, economic reforms and geographic location. A simple model of transition and democratization is...

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Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market

Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David; Peterle, Emmanuel - 2017

In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discrimination). Group identity is induced on subjects such that each laboratory "society"consists of eight...

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Fictitious play in networks

Ewerhart, Christian; Valkanova, Kremena - 2016

This paper studies fictitious play in networks of noncooperative two-player games. We show that continuous-time fictitious play converges to Nash equilibrium provided that the overall game is zero-sum. Moreover, the rate of convergence is 1/T , regardless of the size of the network. In contrast,...

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Field of Conflict: Ein relationaler Ansatz zur Analyse von Konflikten um Land

Dietz, Kristina; Engels, Bettina - 2018

In this paper, a framework is developed to empirically analyse conflicts over land in the context of structural …' conflicts resulting from 'global' crises. Building on Bourdieu's concept of the field and on an actor oriented concept of …

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Struggling for land access: The success and failure of social movement actors' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale land transformations

Prause, Louisa - 2016

Struggles over meaning construction are an essential part of conflicts over large-scale land transformations. To …' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS … discursive structures. Empirically, the study compares conflicts over gold mining and agro-industry in Senegal. Some elements of …

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Chiefs do not talk law, most of them talk power: Die Macht traditioneller Autoritäten in Konflikten um 'land grabbing' in Ghana

Kirst, Sarah - 2017

- social conflicts have increased. In many of these conflicts, traditional authorities are central actors. Whereas a number of … studies deals with traditional authorities as mediators and arbitrators in conflicts, the role of traditional authorities as …-industrial ScanFarm project in Ghana, I examine the relevance of traditional authorities' power for the emergence and course of conflicts …

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Fictitious play in networks

Ewerhart, Christian; Valkanova, Kremena - 2019

This paper studies fictitious play in networks of noncooperative two-person games. We show that continuous-time fictitious play converges to the set of Nash equilibria if the overall n-person game is zero-sum. Moreover, the rate of convergence is 1/T, regardless of the size of the network. In...

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Redirecting International Trade: Contracts, Conflicts, and Institutions

Kokko, Ari; Söderlund, Bengt; Tingvall, Patrik Gustavsson - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 6, pp. 688-721

characterized by a high frequency of trade conflicts and where transactions require extensive relationship-specific investments are …

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