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Self-enforcing collective counterterror retaliation
Oliveira, André L.; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may …-specific benefits from retaliation enjoyed by each coalition member, the relatively lower spillover benefit from retaliation enjoyed by … the anticipated backlash from retaliation, which targets coalition members only. …
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Self-enforcing collective counterterror retaliation
Oliveira, André L.; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
Motivated by recent examples of collective effort on the war on terror, we examine the incentives that retaliation may …-specific benefits from retaliation enjoyed by each coalition member, the relatively lower spillover benefit from retaliation enjoyed by … the anticipated backlash from retaliation, which targets coalition members only. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013200158
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Chapter 25 Terrorism: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Sandler, Todd; Arce, Daniel G. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 775-813). 2007
This chapter surveys the past applications of game theory to the study of terrorism. By capturing the strategic … interplay between terrorists and targeted governments, game theory is an appropriate methodology for investigating terrorism and … indicates novel directions for applying game theory to terrorism-related issues (e.g., cooperative collectives to strengthen …
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Chapter 20 Defense in a Globalized World: An Introduction
Sandler, Todd; Hartley, Keith - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 607-621). 2007
, terrorism, arms races, and military manpower); and chapters on topics that reflects the influence of globalization and new … threats (e.g., terrorism, trade and peace, and arms industries). Third, the chapter provides a brief overview of each chapter …
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Terrorism, key assets, and critical infrastructures : to protect or to rebuild? ; that is the question
Crettez, Bertrand; Deloche, Régis - In: Public choice 144 (2010) 1/2, pp. 105-118
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A cliometric analysis of the Aldo Moro kidnapping and assassination.
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...
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Does a Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - In: Defence and Peace Economics (2019) Latest Articles, pp. 1-19
credibility problem of national governments in other international agreements too. …
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Politico_economic Aspects of Combat with Terrorism
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey - In: Research Paper Series (2005) 82P, pp. 116-116
The paper considers and tests different approaches to analysis of causes of, and incentives to terrorist activities and the media and politicians' opportunist behavior. While the first approach is based on the assumption of a universal deployment of a compromise strategy, the other one is based...
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Optimal sequential contests
Hinnosaar, Toomas - In: Theoretical Economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 207-244
I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, including rent seeking, R&D, oligopoly, public goods provision, and tragedy of the commons. I show that information about other players'...
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Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking
Jost, Peter-J. - In: Small Business Economics 59 (2021) 3, pp. 1043-1059
We study the formation of an entrepreneurial network in an environment, in which entrepreneurs who are contesting with each other for the development of a new venture have the possibility to collaborate. On the one hand, such bilateral knowledge collaborations are beneficial because they allow...
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