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Beware of broken windows! First impressions in public-good experiments
Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009
Broken Windows: the metaphor has changed New York and Los Angeles. Yet it is far from undisputed whether the broken windows policy was causal for reducing crime. In a series of lab experiments we show that first impressions are indeed causal for cooperativeness in three different institutional...
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Sorgen um den globalen Terrorismus in Deutschland
Müller, Cathérine - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 37, pp. 544-548
Sorgen um den globalen Terrorismus als um ihre eigene wirtschaftliche Situation. Besonders ältere Menschen und Frauen … Abitur machen sich signifikant seltener große Sorgen um den globalen Terrorismus. Diese Befunde sind wichtig, weil Emotionen … politischen Umgang mit Terrorismus. …
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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't": Mimicking behaviour of growth-oriented terrorist organizations
Hendel, Ulrich - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427627
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The law and economics of enhancing cartel enforcement: Using information from non-cartel investigations to prosecute cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - 2011
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277361
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The economics of terrorism and counter-terrorism: A survey (Part II)
Schneider, Friedrich; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter …-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences … of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291786
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The economics of terrorism and counter-terrorism: A survey (Part I)
Schneider, Friedrich; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter …-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences … of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291788
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Violent groups and police tactics : should tear gas make crime preventers cry?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2005
Democratic societies are challenged by various violent and organized groups, be they terrorists, gangs or organized hooligans. In exchange for offering an identity, leaders in such groups typically require members to be violent. We introduce a simple model to capture these stylized facts, and...
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Der 11. September und die Folgen in Asien: Politische Reaktionen in der VR China, Japan, Malaysia und Vietnam
Adelsberger, Karin; Derichs, Claudia; Heberer, Thomas; … - 2002
zeigen deutlich, dass Politik jenseits des geteilten Entsetzens über die Ausmaße des internationalen Terrorismus doch in … horror of the extent of international terrorism. …
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Camera Surveillance as a Measure of Counterterrorism?
Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael - 2010
Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this … evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than on other forms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390644
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On the heterogeneity of Terror
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther - 2012
The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325137