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Arms races and conflict: Experimental evidence
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2019
removes their capacity to strike. Weapons can serve as a means of deterrence. In four treatments, we find that deterrence is … beneficial trade decreases the risk of confrontation, but not necessarily the likelihood of costly arms races. …
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Preventive wars
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2022
The rise of a new power may lead the dominant power to seek a preventive war. We study this scenario in an experimental two-stage bargaining game. In each stage, the rising power makes a bargaining offer and the declining power must choose whether to accept it or fight. Between the two stages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801942
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Preventive wars
Abbink, Klaus; Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo - 2022
The rise of a new power may lead the dominant power to seek a preventive war. We study this scenario in an experimental two-stage bargaining game. In each stage, the rising power makes a bargaining offer and the declining power must choose whether to accept it or fight. Between the two stages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272189
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576771
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The attack and defense of weakest-link networks
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2010
across the targets. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; weakest-link ; best-shot ; multi-dimensional resource …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697819
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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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Defensive weapons and Star Wars : a supergame with optimal punishments
Giacomello, Giampiero; Lambertini, Luca - 2011
We model the perspective faced by nuclear powers involved in a supergame where nuclear deterrence is used to stabilise … peace. This setting allows us to investigate the bearings of defensive weapons on the effectiveness of deterrence and peace …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737227
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On the prevalence of framing effects across subject-pools in a two-person cooperation game
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Walkowitz, Gari - 2010
In this experimental study, involving subjects from Abu-Dis (West Bank), Chengdu (China), Helsinki (Finland), and Jerusalem (Israel), we test for a presentation bias in a two-person cooperation game. In the positive frame of the game, a transfer creates a positive externality for the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003978627
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Presentation effects in cross-cultural experiments : an experimental framework for comparisons
Goerg, Sebastian J. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of game presentation dependent on ethnical affiliation. Two games representing the same logical and strategical problem are introduced. Presented games are continuous prisoner's dilemma games where decision makers can choose an individual level of cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782266
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On the Prevalence of Framing Effects Across Subject-Pools in a Two-Person Cooperation Game
Goerg, Sebastian J.; Walkowitz, Gari - 2011
In this experimental study, involving subjects from Abu-Dis (West Bank), Chengdu (China), Helsinki (Finland), and Jerusalem (Israel), we test for a presentation bias in a two-person cooperation game. In the positive frame of the game, a transfer creates a positive externality for the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194169