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Better feared than loved : reputations and the motives for conflict

Long, Iain W. - 2014

Throughout history, victory in conflict has created fearsome reputations. With it, the victor ensures greater allegiance of the wider population, increasing their rents at the expense of their enemy. Such reputational concerns generate two motives for conflict. When only victory or defeat is...

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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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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 …

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Protecting Cultural Monuments Against Terrorism

Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - 2006

Famous cultural monuments are often regarded as unique icons, making them an attractive target for terrorists. Despite huge military and police outlays, terrorist attacks on important monuments can hardly be avoided. We argue that an effective strategy for discouraging terrorist attacks on...

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Terrorism : Deterrence May Backfire

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon - 2004

Present anti-terrorist policy concentrates almost exclusively on deterrence. It seeks to fend off terrorism by raising … and induces in some cases even more terrorism. This is, in particular, the case if deterrence policy induces a …

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Transnational Terrorism and Affiliates : A Game Theoretic Analysis

Harichandan, Aishwarya - 2023

This paper looks at the case where there are two branches of a terrorist group, which operate in two different locations targeting two different countries and regions. This does away with the free rider’s problem arising out of pre-emption that has been highlighted in the literature. The free...

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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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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 …

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'For Being Aboriginal' : Economic Perspectives on Pre-Holocaust Genocide and Mass Killings

Brauer, Jurgen - 2015

We present two schemata with which to parse cases of genocide and mass killings (GMK) for economic content. The first … following the 1948 codification of the word genocide in international law, we illustrate the economic concepts and theories with … pre-Holocaust examples. The intent of the chapter is to speak to both, economists and genocide scholars …

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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...

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