Zusammenfassung Die Bedeutung, die der zukünftigen Entwicklung von Wirtschaft und Umwelt zugemessen wird, ist eine der entscheidenden Determinanten dafür, ob Nachhaltigkeit erreicht werden kann. Entsprechend wird der Art und Weise, wie Wirtschaftssubjekte die Zukunft diskontieren, in der...

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of suicide attacks and defection. First, decision processes of potential attackers are examined from an economist’s perspective. The results are then applied to insights from behavioural economics and psychology. We derive conditions under which...

The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the commonly used policy approach to subsidize the private provision of public goods by granting agents deductions with respect to their income or corporate tax burden. Design/methodology/approach – In the framework of a microeconomic...