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Peace economists and peace economics
Brauer, Jurgen; Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
between societies. Differentiating peace economics from defense/military economics, conflict economics, and security economics …We define peace economics as the economic study and design of political, economic, and cultural institutions, their …, we assert that while founded on positive precepts, peace economics is distinct for its normative character. We place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372515
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Beyond Deterrence and Decline. Towards a General Understanding of Peace Economics
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this short article is to provide elements for a general discussion on peace economics and its potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113258
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Empire-building and Price competition
Pietri, Antoine; Tazdaït, Tarik; Vahabi, Mehrdad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper is among the first to theoretically examine the relevance of price competition in the protection market by focusing on the competition between empires. By distinguishing absolute and differential protection rents, we first define coercive rivalry and price competition among empires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258571
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Empire-building and price competition
Pietri, Antoine; Tazdaït, Tarik; Vahabi, Mehrdad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
While economic historians have stressed the importance of price competition in the protection market, theorists of conflictual activity have argued against the extrapolation of this form of competition in the protection market and favored competition through the quantity of conflictual effort....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259797
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Cycles of violence and terrorist attacks index for the State of Arizona
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of Arizona (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260309
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Strategic defense and attack for series and parallel reliability systems: reply to rejoinder
Hausken, Kjell - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Kovenock and Roberson’s (2012ab) replication of Hausken’s (2008a) equations and parameter restrictions do not enhance our insight into the defense and attack of reliability systems. This reply intends to fill the remaining understanding gaps.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647311
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Cycles of violence, riots, and terrorist attacks index for the State of California
Gómez-sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S, and Homeland Security identify the closeness of terrorist attacks through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835878
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Continuing Conflict and Stalemate: A Note
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This note is about the possibility of a stalemate in a continuing conflict. Following the prevailing economic literature on the topic, under some assumptions, the outcome of a conflict can be described in two ways: (i) a predetermined split of a contested output; (ii) a winner-take-all contest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836217
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Evolución Estrategica del Conflicto Armado en Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author’s scientific output. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543485
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Dilemmas of decision (Nozick) and private military security companies in Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using two theoretical categories of the work of Robert Nozick: (a) protection agencies and (b) minimal state, to illustrate by analogy with the CMSP, the dilemmas arising from the use of private military in regions with civil wars and conflicts irregular. We see that the relations preserved PBMC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498486