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Terrorism : deterrence may backfire
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745912
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How to fight terrorism : alternatives to deterrence
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745919
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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror
Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i … citizens of a particular country in a given year. -- causes of terrorism ; poverty and terrorism ; panel estimations ; extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266761
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791827
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Game theory and cold war rationality : a review essay
Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2016
This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books "The World the Game Theorists Made" by Paul Erickson and "How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind" by Paul Erickson,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524189
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Military aid, direct intervention and counterterrorism
García-Alonso, María del Carmen; Levine, Paul; Smith, Ron - 2015
We present a model of transnational terrorism where two countries, home and foreign, face a terrorist threat based in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472584
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Impact of terrorist incidents on tourism in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia : a dynamic heterogeneous panel approach
Gok, Ugur; Nwaka, Ikechukwu - 2019
aforementioned regions' poor performance in the tourism industry is due to growing terrorism in the region. Our results indicate that … terrorism plays a deterrent role in the tourist's decision-making process for traveling to those countries. By using both the … a significant negative impact of terrorism on tourism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133683
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Armed groups in conflict : competition and political violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231521
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Military intervention via drone strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005283