Custodes Invicem Custodiunt: Commitment through Competition

How can specialists in violence, such as the military or the police, commit not to expropriate from producers? In this paper we propose competition between these agents as one of the mechanisms that can deter predation. In our model, even if specialists in violence could expropriate all output costl...

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Main Authors: ANEY, Madhav S., KO, Giovanni
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1295
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2294/viewcontent/MadhavSAney_Custodes_Invicem_Custodiunt.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English