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, the opportunity cost of engaging in suicide terrorism decreases. An alternative explanation is that suicide bombings are …
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favor. An increased external threat of terrorism--either an increase in the likelihood of a successful terrorist attack or a … thus lessen the severity of the conflict at home. However, unless the marginal return from guarding against terrorism is …
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The article aims at suggesting possible conjectures on Al-Qaeda's logic and structure. Even if the organization's secrecy makes any empirical evidence difficult to find, some insight can be provided by economic theory of contests: in this terms, Al-Qaeda can be acknowledged like an agent...
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Recent surveys in the United States and the Muslim world show widespread misinformation about the events of September 11, 2001. Using data from 9 predominantly Muslim countries, we study how such beliefs depend on exposure to news media and levels of education. Standard economic theory would...
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In this paper, I present and discuss a method for modelling an important trade-off faced by terrorism prevention … policies: the trade-off between, on the one hand, trying to reduce people's inclination towards terrorism, and, on the other … terrorism (first goal), involving measures such as raising the standard of living, and symptom-related policies reduce the power …
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This paper considers the job satisfaction of academics using a detailed dataset of over two thousand academics from ten … measure of job-satisfaction. Academics appear to be considering three separate sets of elements of their jobs, namely the … elements of job satisfaction on their intentions to leave the sector. …
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empirically tests the role of satisfaction in the routinization (this is one of the first empirical attempt of this kind). The …
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understanding their satisfaction. These considerations refer to variables traditionally left out of economic analysis, which focuses … instead on the final payoff and not on its relation to preferences or satisfaction, which are deemed non-measurable. On the … contrary, this work has shown that consistent data emerge by simply asking players to express preferences and satisfaction …
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In a two-stage two-public good experiment, we study the effect that subjects’ possibility of contributing to a public good in the first stage of the game has on the voluntary contributions to the second public good. Our results show that subjects do not follow either the Nash strategy or the...
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We run a public goods experiment with four different treatments. The payoff function is chosen such that the Nash equilibrium (NE) and the collective optimum (CO) are both in the interior of the strategy space. We test the effect of varying the level of the collective optimum on contributions....
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