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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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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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Conflict-induced migration of composers: an individual-level study
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 237-266
Research on the causes of conflict-induced migration is hindered by the lack of adequately disaggregated data. The … conflict impacts the migration intensity with a lag of approximately 1 year. Furthermore, the choice of a destination country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691240
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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 Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2013
geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659016
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The Arctic scramble: Introducing claims in a contest model
Ansink, Erik - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 693-707
In this paper I integrate elements from the bankruptcy literature in a resource contest model. In a contest model, agents fight over a contested resource and their investment in 'guns' determines how much of the resource is secured by each agent. In a bankruptcy problem, agents claim a share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574395
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Parochial altruism in inter-group conflicts
Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi; Herrmann, Benedikt; … - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 45-48
conflict game preceded by a prisoner’s dilemma. Our data are consistent with parochial altruism, but cannot be explained by in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010580479
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War and Creativity: Solving the War-Art Puzzle for Classical Music Composition
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
The relationship between conflict and artistic output is ambiguous. This paper proposes an explanation for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852526
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Are Composers Different? Historical Evidence on Conflict-induced Migration (1816-1997)
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
war correspond negatively with the number of artists. We also find that conflict-induced migration intensity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852527
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Conflict-induced Migration of Composers: An Individual-level Study
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
, the associated dynamics of conflict-induced migration and the determinants of choice of a destination country. We find … incidence of intra-state wars by roughly nineteen percent. The results imply that conflict impacts the migration intensity with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852528