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Applying Intermediate Microeconomics to Terrorism
Anderton, Charles; Carter, John - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2004
The authors show how microeconomic concepts and principles are applicable to the study of terrorism. The utility maximization model provides insights into both terrorist resource allocation choices and government counterterrorism efforts, while basic game theory helps characterize the strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526874
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Organising co-existence in cyberspace: Content regulation and privacy compared
Engel, Christoph - 2002
The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324016
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Organising co-existence in cyberspace : content regulation and privacy compared
Engel, Christoph - 2002
The Internet globalizes the world. National regulatory autonomy shrinks. Transferring data from one country to another is almost costless. Foreign content is just a click away. Why is it that states have been able to re-install co-existence in some policy areas, and not in others? In data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582891
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Applying Intermediate Microeconomics to Terrorism
Anderton, Charles H.; Carter, John R. - In: Journal of Economic Education 37 (2006) 4, pp. 442-458
The authors show how microeconomic concepts and principles are applicable to the study of terrorism. The utility maximization model provides insights into both terrorist resource allocation choices and government counterterrorism efforts, and basic game theory helps characterize the strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005243265
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On the Growth and Welfare Effects of Defense R&D
Chu, Angus C.; Lai, Ching-Chong - Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica - 2009
In the US, defense R&D share of GDP has decreased significantly since 1960. To analyze the implications on growth and … welfare, we develop an R&D-based growth model that features the crowding-out and spillover effects of defense R&D on civilian … R&D. The model also captures the effects of defense technology on (i) national security resembling consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514879
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Group contests with complementarities in efforts
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2010
Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output is no longer simply a sum of individual outputs. We analyze contests with group-specific public goods that allow for different degrees of complementarity between group members'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270650
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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox
Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011
The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274810
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Formen des politischen Terrorismus: ein Plädoyer für eine Differentialdiagnose
Zimmermann, Ekkart - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 11-28
Ziel dieses Beitrag ist die Herausarbeitung einer präziseren Definition des Terrorismus anhand eines Minimalsatzes an Kriterien (Teil 1). Sodann werden verschiedene Typologien des Terrorismus diskutiert, mit Schwerpunkt auf substaatlichem politischem Terrorismus (Teil 2). Anschließend wird ein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377899
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Play it again: Partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis - 2013
Previous research has shown that opportunities for two-sided partner choice in finitely repeated social dilemma games can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by selfish players causing an end-game decline. How such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420270
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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013
Previous research has shown that opportunities for two-sided partner choice in finitely repeated social dilemma games can promote cooperation through a combination of sorting and opportunistic signaling, with late period defections by selfish players causing an end-game decline. How such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010126752