Arbeitspapier

The Role and Evolution of Central Authorities

In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re-commitment devices suchas contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In alocal interaction model, an authority forms if mutually connected individuals with sufficient combined punishment potential have signalled their willingness to form such an authority, conditional upon the willigness of others todo so. Given a specific timing of decisions, we analyse the conditions under which authorities arise and under which they evolve into a stationary state with only one or several remaining authorities.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 99-053/1

Classification
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
Externalities
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Subject
Central Authorities
Cooperation
Evolution
Externalities
Local Interaction
Theorie
Staatstheorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Frijters, Paul
Tieman, Alexander F.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Tinbergen Institute
(where)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(when)
1999

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Frijters, Paul
  • Tieman, Alexander F.
  • Tinbergen Institute

Time of origin

  • 1999

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