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Protecting Cultural Monuments Against Terrorism
Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463528
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673504
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On the Problem of the Hedgeless Hedgefunds of Sleepy Hollow: An Evolutionary Stable Solution in an Open Letter to Kenneth Griffin
Funk, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This discourse explores and illuminates a fundamental problem, the Achilles' heel, which dominates the hedgefund industry: namely, that hedgefunds no are not positioned to accomplish what they were designed to do: namely, hedge against catastrophic loss in the financial markets. Contemporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617040
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The U.S. economy today: Between systemic crisis and permanent war.
Herrera, Rémy - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013
This paper studies the U.S. economy from an original point of view: that of the links existing between crisis and war …. The first part analyzes the workings of the current crisis, considered to be a “systemic” one. The second part places the … U.S. economy at the very heart of this crisis. The third part emphasizes the limitations of the anti-crisis policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617538
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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
does not appear to play a role. Again, we find that culture defined by geographic proximity dominates culture defined by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777376
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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?
Fischer, Justina AV - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011
does not appear to play a role. Again, we find that culture defined by geographic proximity dominates culture defined by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800764
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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?
Fischer, Justina - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
does not appear to play a role. Again, we find that culture defined by geographic proximity dominates culture defined by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957280
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The Power of the Family
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The structure of family relationships influences economic behavior and attitudes. We define our measure of family ties using individual responses from the World Value Survey regarding the role of the family and the love and respect that children need to have for their parents for over 70...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822814
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Rethinking the Culture - Economy Dialectic
Brons, Lajos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The culture - economy dialectic (CED), the opposition of the concepts and phenomena of culture and economy, is one of … the most important notions in the modern history of ideas. Both the disciplinary boundaries and much theoretical thought … CED might be useful to better understand the history of ideas in social science and the currently fashionable research on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836869
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Does Culture Affect Corporate Governance?
Gantenbein, Pascal; Volonté, Christophe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2012
The legal environment is one important determinant of corporate governance. However,  within  legal families,  also cultural  differences can explain the level of corporate governance to some extent. We analyze this relationship for the case of Switzerland.  Swiss firms  are mainly located...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152759