Essays in the experimental analysis of conflict

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" Essays in the experimental analysis of conflict "
Khan, Humera

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1101894
Doc. No	:	TLets715693
Main Entry	:	Khan, Humera
Title & Author	:	Essays in the experimental analysis of conflict\ Khan, Humera
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2017
student score	:	2017
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	The thesis consists of three chapters with Chapters 2 and 3 providing experimental evidence on the role of cheap-talk and a third party recommendation in reducing or aggravating conflict. Chapter 1 surveys the theoretical, empirical and experimental literature on the determinants of conflict. Chapter 2 considers an experiment based on Baliga and Sjostrom (BS, 2004) to investigate whether communication reduces the probability of an arms race. We find that communication does indeed reduce the possibility of using strategies that lead to an arms race, even when the unique Bayesian Nash equilibrium without communication has both players playing a strategy that leads to an arms race. Chapter 3 considers a set of experiments based on Baliga and Sjostrom (BS, 2012) to understand if third parties can provoke conflict. We adapt their model to experimentally test if a third party recommendation can trigger conflict. While in some treatments with recommendation, more players do choose an aggressive strategy compared to the treatment without, none of them are statistically significant. We propose a number of explanations for why provocation may not necessarily increase conflict in this environment.
Subject	:	HB Economic Theory
	:	HC Economic History and Conditions
	:	JA Political science (General)
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham