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This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role … of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect … effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include the behavioural responses of agents and the government to security …
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Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored … and its significance (let alone its existence) may hardly be doubted. Security is a fundamental human need which is a … on how the term "security" itself should be defined and what specific aspects or issues it should include (and which ones …
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The financial means of international terror and transnational organized crime organizations are analyzed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations during the first phase of the Intifada....
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Policy programs on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) have largely called for preventive measures like keeping record of financial transactions and reporting suspicious ones. In this survey study, we analyze the extent of global money laundering and...
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Terrorist incidents exert a negative, albeit generally short-lived, impact on markets and equity returns. Given the integration of global financial markets, mega-terrorist events also have a high contagion potential with their shock waves being transmitted across countries and markets. This...
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The paper provides a rare case study of terrorism and counter-terrorism within a closed society, carried out under a blanket of official secrecy. This case is unexpectedly revealing in what it tells us about terrorism, counterterrorism, and the relative strengths of open and closed societies....
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a sober confirmation of the nuclear weapon capacity of this state with the concomitant potential security threat this … this security development and these two specific events. The results, although not uniform across all countries and markets …
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survey presents the existing knowledge on the interrelation between the economy and the issue of security and it incorporates … analysis the level of knowledge about the causal chains between security and the economy. Also it focuses on perspective and … terrorism security annexes is discussed and here we analyze the causes of terrorism in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611293
survey presents the existing knowledge on the interrelation between the economy and the issue of security and it incorporates … analysis the level of knowledge about the causal chains between security and the economy. Also it focuses on perspective and … terrorism security annexes is discussed and here we analyze the causes of terrorism in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611294