removes their capacity to strike. Weapons can serve as a means of deterrence. In four treatments, we find that deterrence is … beneficial trade decreases the risk of confrontation, but not necessarily the likelihood of costly arms races. …

removes their capacity to strike. Weapons can serve as a means of deterrence. In four treatments, we find that deterrence is … beneficial trade decreases the risk of confrontation, but not necessarily the likelihood of costly arms races. …

When appropriation possibilities are overlooked, the predictions of standard trade models can be misleading. Trade … end we incorporate appropriation possibilities into the simplest model of trade: the Edgeworth box model o f pure exchange …. The model predicts that exchange will occur between a Defender and an Attacker, but the terms and volume of trade will be …

deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically … significant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a significant deterrence effect than …

Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …

instrument of counterterrorism as resting on the premise of a deterrence effect. Based on comparative arguments and previous …