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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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Protecting Cultural Monuments Against Terrorism
Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - 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/10012168229
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for … the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314834
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically – and from … a global viewpoint – whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries … support migration-based cultural convergence, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882348
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for … the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically - and from … a global viewpoint - whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries … support migration-based cultural convergence, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648747
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Happiness in the arts—International evidence on artists’ job satisfaction
Bille, Trine; Fjællegaard, Cecilie Bryld; Frey, Bruno S.; … - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 1, pp. 15-18
Many artists are prone to high unemployment and low incomes suggesting low job satisfaction. Our analysis including 49 countries paints a different picture. On average artists enjoy higher job satisfaction than other employees, mainly due to more autonomy.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011041740
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Overprotected politicians
Frey, Bruno S. - 2007
This paper argues that politicians are overprotected. The costs of political assassination differ systematically depending on whether a private or a public point of view is taken. A politician attributes a very high (if not infinite) cost to his or her survival. The social cost of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264147
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Politicians: be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264506