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An Economic Theory of 'Destabilization War' '- Compromise for Peace versus Conventional, Guerilla, or Terrorist Warfare
Gries, Thomas; Haake, Claus-Jochen - 2016
is strongly superior? When does a conflict develop towards a peaceful conflict resolution, terrorism, a guerilla war, or … a widely spread conventional civil war? We develop a formal model for rebels and government and derive optimal choices …. Further, we focus on three elements as important ingredients of a "destabilization war". All three of these - large random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527744
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All-pay war
Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - 2010
We study a model of war in which the outcome of the war is uncertain from the perspective of the involved countries not … at any resource level. From an ex ante perspective it is therefore likely to win the war. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270185
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How Do Consumers Adapt to a New Environment in their economic forecasting? Evidence from the German Reunification.
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2019
Exploiting the natural experiment of the German reunification, we examine how consumers adapt to a new environment in their macroeconomic forecasting. We document that East Germans expect higher inflation and make larger forecast errors than West Germans even decades after reunification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099230
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Information Frictions among Firms and Households
Link, Sebastian; Peichl, Andreas; Roth, Christopher; … - 2021
We use surveys of German households and firms to study the extent of information frictions among different groups of economic agents. Firms' expectations about the central bank policy rate, inflation, and aggregate unemployment are more aligned with expert forecasts and less dispersed than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623122
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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?
Fischer, Justina - 2011
We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305939
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Youth Bulges, Insurrections, and Politico-Economic Institutions
Gerling, Lena; Apolte, Thomas - 2015
We develop a model of insurrection markets and integrate the youth bulge as measured by the relative youth cohort size. As youth-specific characteristics we define the young person's attitude toward revolutionary groups and the government, the degree of risk aversion and the relative...
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The regional economic effects of military base realignments and closures in Germany
Paloyo, Alfredo; Vance, Colin; Vorell, Matthias - 2010
We identify the causal effect of a reduction in military personnel on a number of socioeconomic indicators within the periphery of the military base. The base realignments and closures (BRACs) within the German armed forces is an exogenous source of variation that allows for the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332503
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The institutional and economic foundations of regional proto-federations
Economou, Emmanouil Marios Lazaros; Kyriazis, Nicholas; … - 2013
In the present paper we analyse for the first time as far as we know, the ancient Greek regional proto-federations, of free-democratic city-states. We examine their political institutions and policies, like common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397469
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Extractive Institutions, Choking Taxes, and War: On the (Beneficial) Impact of Inequality in Autocracies
Schwuchow, Soeren - 2018
’s extractive policies and her intended risk of war. Relying on a general equilibrium model, we show that (i) autocrats can utilize … hostilities but also causes ordinary citizens to favor war since the autocrat would then loose her grip at home. Our results help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892035
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Scientific Management of Knowledge as a Resource in the Learning System of Security and Defence
Stojkov, Stojko; Dimitrova, Sevdalina; Marinov, Rumen - 2018
The need to introduce scientific management and change management, while respecting the requirements for efficiency and transparency in the security industry, requires the corresponding responsibility to the obligations and adaptability to the changes in the security environment, to the risks...
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