Custodes Invicem Custodiunt: Commitment through Competition

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: ANEY, Madhav S., KO, Giovanni
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• الموضوعات: Behavioral Economics; Social Psychology and Interaction
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: 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
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

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...