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Terrorism and Business
Frey, Bruno S. - 2007
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of … terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less …
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How to fight terrorism : alternatives to deterrence
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon - In: Defence and peace economics 14 (2003) 4, pp. 237-249
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Terrorism : deterrence may backfire
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon - 2002
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How to fight terrorism : alternatives to deterrence
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon - 2002
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Anti-Terrorismus-Politik : eine ökonomische Analyse
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon - In: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium : WiSt ; … 32 (2003) 5, pp. 264-269
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Repression, Rationality and Relative Deprivation; a Theoretical and Empirical Examination of Cross-National Variations in Political Violence
Davis, Gareth G. - 2008
This paper develops a theory of political violence that is based on the rationality of individual agents. Violence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204455
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Characteristics of terrorism
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732419
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What Directs a Terrorist?
Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2005
Terrorist models often focus on one kind of agent as well as one motive to pursue terrorism. Our model diverges from … rational terrorists support terrorism and even commit suicide attacks. In line with empirical findings, income levels play no …
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Rationality in economics
Hammond, Peter J. - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 105 (1997) 3, pp. 247-288
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Politicians : be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 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...
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