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just obeying and, hence, to be irrational. In this paper we offer a different approach which postulates rationality of all … terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …
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This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – 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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Terrorismus zunehmend ins Blickfeld der Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Kameraüberwachung ist wohl das sich am schnellsten verbreitende … Analyse illegalen Verhaltens erwarten wir eine relativ geringere abschreckende Wirkung von Kameraüberwachung auf Terrorismus … and terrorism has become a focus of the public discourse. CCTV might be the most rapidly spreading and, at the same time …
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terrorism on competitors’ market shares in tourism sector where involved countries enjoy significant tourism activities but are … Mediterranean region and providing an additional destination for tourists to visit. Evidence indicates that the tourism industry in … Israel and Turkey are more sensitive to terrorism incidents than in Greece. There are also significant regional contagion …
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Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
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Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies … plant of petroleum products. The method used for the analysis foresees a review of the main findings about risk perception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608545
accepting a bribe that leads to a higher present period income while facing the risk of being audited and being left with a … considerable lower income in all subsequent periods. Because risk attitudes might differ when putting earned versus endowed income … at risk, we compare treatments where participants either receive an endowment beforehand, or earn their income by …
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Decision making usually involves uncertainty and risk. Understanding which parts of the human brain are activated … during decisions under risk and which neural processes underly (risky) investment decisions are important goals in …-related activations in space and dynamics in time. Further, we classify the risk attitudes of all subjects based on the estimated …
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world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give … positive effects on the tourism flows between these countries. In particular, after controlling for a set of geographic …
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This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...
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