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National Responses to Transnational Terrorism: Intelligence and Counterterrorism Provision

Jensen, Thomas - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2012

Intelligence about transnational terrorist threats is generally gathered by national agencies. I set up and analyze a … game theoretic model to study the implications of national intelligence gathering for the provision of domestic (defensive … all intelligence is commonly known, national intelligence gathering often leads to increased overprovision, although it …

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DIFFICULTIES IN THE STATISTICAL PROCESS: TWO EXAMPLES IN KARL PEARSON’S WORK

BARBU, Alina - In: Journal of Doctoral Research in Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 62-67

demonstrates that intelligence is gender-related in Jewish children and in another he assigns the highly correlated cephalic index …

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Management of Information – Vector of Business Competitivity

DEACONU, Alecxandrina; BICHIR, Valentin - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 60 (2012) 2, pp. 407-418

The evolution and development of human society leads towards an environment of information and knowledge. Therefore, the performance must be based, at least partly, on the proper management of information. This section of management is helped in a great measure by the advance in electronic...

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Intelligence and corruption

Potrafke, Niklas - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 1, pp. 109-112

This study finds that countries with high-IQ populations enjoy less corruption. I propose that this is because intelligent people have longer time horizons.

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Cognitive disparities, lead plumbing, and water chemistry: Prior exposure to water-borne lead and intelligence test scores among World War Two U.S. Army enlistees

Ferrie, Joseph P.; Rolf, Karen; Troesken, Werner - In: Economics & Human Biology 10 (2012) 1, pp. 98-111

intelligence test scores. Exposure was proxied by urban residence and the water pH levels of the cities where enlistees lived in …

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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of cognitive ability, social preferences, and consistency

Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) C, pp. 112-122

Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between consequential measures of cognitive ability and...

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Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risks present in...

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GROWTHIN EUROPE THROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND EMPOWERING THE INDIVIDUAL

Hamzescu, Ion Rosu - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 1 (2012) 40, pp. 51-54

The present paper emphasizes the European Union’s objective to achieve a process of economic growth through knowledge and the responsabilization of the individuals. In order to cope with the exigencies of competencies and to fulfill the promise of a knowledge-based society, the EU should...

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IQ, trading behavior, and performance

Grinblatt, Mark; Keloharju, Matti; Linnainmaa, Juhani T. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 104 (2012) 2, pp. 339-362

return, trade, and limit order book data with two decades of scores from an intelligence (IQ) test administered to nearly …

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Early Life Adversity and Children's Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2012

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