Outputs (4)

AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess (2024)
Journal Article
Anbarci, N., & Ismail, M. S. (2024). AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess. PLoS ONE, 19(11), Article e0305905. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305905

Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology use has been rising in sports to reach decisions of various complexity. At a relatively low complexity level, for example, major tennis tournaments replaced human line judges with Hawk-Eye Live techno... Read More about AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess.

Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently (2024)
Journal Article
Anbarci, N., & Celik, G. (online). Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently. International Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12737

We study arbitration mechanisms where two parties to the dispute have single‐peaked preferences over outcomes, represented by concave utility functions. The most preferred outcome of each party is her private information. By participating in an arbit... Read More about Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently.

Proportional resource allocation in dynamic n-player Blotto games (2023)
Journal Article
Anbarci, N., Cingiz, K., & Ismail, M. S. (2023). Proportional resource allocation in dynamic n-player Blotto games. Mathematical Social Sciences, 125, 94-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2023.07.002

In this note, we introduce a general model of dynamic
n-player multi-battle Blotto contests in which asymmetric resources and non-homogeneous battlefield prizes are possible. Each player’s probability of winning the prize in a battlefield is govern... Read More about Proportional resource allocation in dynamic n-player Blotto games.

“Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments (2022)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. H., Anbarci, N., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. A. (2022). “Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments. Journal of Development Economics, 159, Article 102982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102982

We exploit the exogenous variation in the timing and intensity of storms in island countries to estimate the storms' effect on the extent of democracy. Using a rich panel dataset spanning the period 1950–2020, our difference-in-differences estimation... Read More about “Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments.