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on a two-period signaling game. The terrorists, taking into account the government's counter-terrorism response to first … choice it observes in period 1 and adjusts its second period counter-terrorism spending according to the perceived threat of … terrorism. Combining the signaling game and organizational growth approaches of previous contributions, this paper shows that …
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terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …
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psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy … – with respect to the aims of terrorism as well as the means to attain them – and reducing the information bias – with …
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The author shows that the US as the world's largest investor abroad so far shuns the most dynamic host region East Asia including China and instead continues to focus on investment in Europe. In contrast, Germany follows a different path. Similar to trade, German companies have been very active...
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This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...
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This paper is the first to examine the effect of minimum price guaranteesin a sequential search model. Minimum price guarantees are notadvertised and only known to consumers when they come to the shop.We show that in such an environment, minimum price guarantees increasethe value of buying the...
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This paper studies majority voting on taxes when tax evasion is possible. We characterize the voting equilibrium where the agent with median taxed income is pivotal. Since the ranking of true incomes does not necessarily correspond to the ranking of taxed incomes, the decisive voter can differ...
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We consider a real business cycle model with a productive externality and an aggregate non- convex technology set µa la Benhabib and Farmer embodying capacity utilization, which exhibits indeterminacy of the steady state and multiplicity of deterministic equilibria under plausible values of the...
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Terrorism and crime, particularly organised crime with its close links to terrorism, currently constitute the greatest … culminated in the ousting of regimes. Terrorism and organised crime are, to varying extents, prevalent in all Maghreb states and …, as yet their use has sufficed to contain the threats posed by terrorism and crime. …
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