Crettez, Bertrand; Deloche, Régis - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 2, pp. 123-139
In Rome, on 16 March 1978, the Red Brigades kidnapped Aldo Moro. They kept him a prisoner for 55 days, and ultimately killed him. Why did they decide to kill Moro since it appears a posteriori that they did not improve their situation by doing so? Our paper answers this question by building...