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Stergios Skaperdas
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 121
Citations - 8370
Stergios Skaperdas is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gains from trade & Property rights. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 118 publications receiving 8043 citations. Previous affiliations of Stergios Skaperdas include Center for Economic Studies & University of California, Berkeley.
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Contest success functions
TL;DR: In this article, the additive CSF employed in most contests is axiomatized, with an independence from irrelevant alternatives property as the key axiom, and two frequently used functional forms are also axiomated: one in which winning probabilities depend on the ratio of players' efforts, and the other in which winners' probability depends on the difference in efforts.
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Cooperation, conflict and power in the absence of property rights
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine interaction in the absence of property rights when agents face a trade-off between productive and coercive activities, and show that conflict is not the necessary outcome of one-time interaction and cooperation is consistent with domination of one agent over another.
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Cooperation, Conflict, and Power in the Absence of Property Rights.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine interaction in the absence of property rights when agents face a trade-off between productive and coercive activities, where conflict is not the necessary outcome of one-time interaction, and cooperation is consistent with domination of one agent over another.
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Economics of Conflict: An Overview
TL;DR: In contrast to other economic activities in which inputs are combined cooperatively through production functions, the inputs to appropriation are combined adversarially through technologies of conflict as mentioned in this paper, and the effects of conflict on economic outcomes are identified: the determinants of the distribution of output (or power) and how an individual party's share can be inversely related to its marginal productivity.
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Modeling Negative Campaigning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that negative campaigning is an important aspect of campaign competition but plays little or no role in existing models of campaigns, and they show that the front-runner will engage in more positive and less negative campaigning than the opponent.