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incidents and terror fatalities data, it is shown that media attention and terrorism do mutually Granger cause each other, as …
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Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals. We provide a model where conflict onset, conflict intensity and the decision to commit...
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We examine how natural resource location, rent sharing and fighting capacities of different groups matter for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts conflict to be more...
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Present anti-terrorist policy concentrates almost exclusively on deterrence. It seeks to fend off terrorism by raising … and induces in some cases even more terrorism. This is, in particular, the case if deterrence policy induces a …
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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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surveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are only a part of the overall costs of terrorism, possible …
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Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in actual politics and rational choice analyses of … terrorism. But there are superior strategies to deterrence. One is to make terrorist attacks less attractive. Another to raise …
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Terrorism will be high on the political agenda for many years to come. Various policies are open to a government … fighting terrorism but, in any case, considerable costs are involved. In the competition for political support, the costs and … benefits of anti-terrorism policies will be debated. Better information about terrorism and its consequences can improve policy …
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Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of … terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less …
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We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of equilibria with only two active players in the all-pay auction with complete information and identity-dependent externalities. This condition shows that the generic equilibrium of the standard all-pay auction is robust to the...
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