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Do groups fight more? Experimental evidence on conflict initiation

Ke, Changxia; Morath, Florian; Seelos, Sophia - 2023

present results from a laboratory experiment in which two parties can appropriate resources via a contest or, alternatively …, take an outside option. Keeping monetary gains expected from fighting constant across all treatments, the experiment …

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Heterogeneity in effect size estimates: Empirical evidence and practical implications

Holzmeister, Felix; Johannesson, Magnus; Böhm, Robert; … - 2023

A typical empirical study involves choosing a sample, a research design, and an analysis path. Variation in such choices across studies leads to heterogeneity in results that introduce an additional layer of uncertainty not accounted for in reported standard errors and confidence intervals. We...

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Cooperation in public goods games: Enhancing effects of group identity and competition

Horstmann, Elaine; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Schneider, Tim - 2017

how group identity impacts the provision of a public good in a contest situation with different prize sharing rules. We …

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

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

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. We consider experimentally when members of victorious alliances accept a peaceful division of the spoils, and when they fight against each other, and how the inability to commit to a peaceful division affects their effort contributions in...

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Endogenous group formation in experimental contests

Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013

We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental threeplayer contests. We find that players in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending...

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

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

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291510

The perks of being in the smaller team: Incentives in overlapping contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019

advantaged in the grand (organization-wide) contest for two reasons: First, the incentive to free-ride is smaller in inter …-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intradivisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

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Overbidding and overspreading in rent-seeking experiments : cost structure and prize allocation rules

Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Turocy, … - In: Games and economic behavior 87 (2014), pp. 224-238

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Resource allocation contests : experimental evidence

Shupp, Robert; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Schmidt, David; … - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 39 (2013), pp. 257-267

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Alliances in the shadow of conflict

Ke, Changxia; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - 2013

Victorious alliances often fight about the spoils of war. This paper presents an experiment on the determinants of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198485