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Protecting Cultural Monuments Against Terrorism

Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2005

Famous cultural monuments are often regarded as unique icons, making them an attractive target for terrorists. Despite huge military and police outlays, terrorist attacks on important monuments can hardly be avoided. We argue that an effective strategy for discouraging terrorist attacks on...

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Religious Identity, Public Goods and Centralization: Evidence from Russian and Israeli Cities

Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013

to study whether attitudes towards religious institutions such as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chief Rabbinate in …

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On Government Centralization and Fiscal Referendums: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Schnellenbach, Jan - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2005

We propose and test a positive model of fiscal federalism in which centralization is less likely to occur in … jurisdictions with referendum decisions on policy cen-tralization. Citizens choose centralization of public spending and revenue in … representative democracy, centralization is ineffi-ciently high because representatives can extract political rents by policy …

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The emergence of emotions and pro-social and religious sentiments during the September 11 disaster

Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011

Analysing emotional states under duress or during heightened, life-and-death situations is extremely difficult, especially given the inability of laboratory experiments to adequately replicate the environment and the inherent biases of post event surveys. It is in this area that natural...

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Overprotected Politicians

Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007

This paper argues that politicians are overprotected. The costs of political assassination differ systematically depending on whether a private or a public point of view is taken. A politician attributes a very high (if not infinite) cost to his or her survival. The social cost of political...

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Why Kill Politicians? A Rational Choice Analysis of Political Assassinations

Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007

In the course of history a large number of politicians has been assassinated. A rational choice analysis is used to distinguish the expected marginal benefits of killing, and the marginal cost of attacking a politician. The comparative analysis of various equilibria helps us to gain insights...

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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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The Times They Are a Changin': The Effect of Institutions on Behavior, Cooperation, Emotional Attachment and Sentiment at 26,000ft

Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013

This paper attempts to determine if the introduction of a competing social institution has had a significant effect and shifted the pro-social behavior in the extreme (life-and-death) environment of mountaineering in the Himalayan Mountains over the last sixty years. We apply an analytic...

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Econometric Fellows and Nobel Laureates in Economics

Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012

dominant PhD granting institutions to generate Fellows and Nobel Laureates in the past. …

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Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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