MPI TAX
Contests & Conflict | 11/17/2021 | 16:00
Competing for Grades

Speaker: Philipp Strack

Philipp Strack will present his paper titled "Competing for Grades" (joint work with Dawei Fang, and Thomas Noe).

Contests & Conflict | 11/03/2021 | 18:00
On the effectiveness of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

Speaker: Hannes Rusch

Hannes Rusch will present his paper titled "On the effectiveness of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment" (joint work with Luke Glowacki and Florian Morath).

Contests & Conflict | 10/20/2021 | 17:00
Contests with Network Externalities: Theory & Evidence

Speaker: Luke Boosey

Luke Boosey will present his paper titled "Contests with Network Externalities: Theory & Evidence" (joint work with Christopher Brown).

Contests & Conflict | 10/06/2021 | 12:00
Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal Prizes in Innovation Contests

Speaker: Jun Xiao

Jun Xiao will present his paper titled "Scarcity of Ideas and Optimal Prizes in Innovation Contests" (joint work with Nisvan Erkal).

Contests & Conflict | 09/22/2021 | 18:00
Peacebuilding and political trust: a survey experiment on political trust in Haiti

Speaker: Han Dorussen

Han Dorussen will present his paper titled "Peacebuilding and political trust: a survey experiment on political trust in Haiti" (joint work with Zorzeta Bakaki).

Contests & Conflict | 09/08/2021 | 18:00
How does the network structure affect connection-specific choices? An experiment on the competitive allocation of resources in weighted networks

Speaker: Sebastián Cortés-Corrales

Sebastián Cortés-Corrales will present his paper titled "How does the network structure affect connection-specific choices? An experiment on the competitive allocation of resources in weighted networks" (joint work with David Rojo Arjona).

Contests & Conflict | 08/25/2021 | 13:00
Nonparametric Identification of Bayesian Games (Tullock Contest under Incomplete Information) under Exclusion Restrictions

Speaker: Jun Zhang

Jun Zhang will present his paper titled "Nonparametric Identification of Bayesian Games (Tullock Contest under Incomplete Information) under Exclusion Restrictions".

Conference | 08/12/2021 - 08/13/2021 | Full-time
Seventh Annual Conference on "Contests: Theory and Evidence"
Contests & Conflict | 08/11/2021 | 18:00
Threat of sabotage as a driver of collective action

Speaker: Kris De Jaegher

Kris De Jaegher will present his paper titled "Threat of sabotage as a driver of collective action".

Conference | 08/02/2021 - 08/08/2021 | 12:20 - 12:21 | Harnack House, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin
Max Planck Summer School on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution 2021

The Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution (PolEcCon) Summer School 2022 is aimed at young researchers in the early stage of their careers as PhD students and Postdocs, notably in the fields of Economics and Political Science. The School provides research-oriented lectures by senior experts in the field of the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution.