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Changing Threat Perceptions and the Efficient Provisioning of International Security
Gupta, Rupayan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
efficient provision of global security. In that paper, the level of threat by a rogue nation was assumed as being exogenously … opinion in the respective countries facing the rogue nation's threat, impacts the efficient provisioning of global security. … that paper, in the case where the threat is endogenized. Additionally, this paper investigates how the evolution of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599131
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Economics and Genocide: Choices and Consequences
Brauer, Jurgen; Anderton, Charles H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Professional economists rarely write on questions of genocide. This surprises because a workhorse tool of the economics discipline concerns the analysis of behavior that takes place under constraints. All parties in genocide—perpetrators, victims, and third parties—face cost and resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107441
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Asset-Centred Redistributive Policies for Sustainable Development
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this discussion paper is to propose an asset-centred analytical framework for (i) mapping the most important redistributive policy tools that shape the distribution of income and income-generating assets (such as human capital and wealth, including land, industrial or financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109126
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, opportunism, risk aversion, trust); and transactions costs associated with ecosystem services and their critical factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025716
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Destructive power, enforcement and institutional change
Vahabi, Mehrdad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Institutions are usually defined as rules of the game. But if rules are dead letters without being enforced, then what is the role of destructive power in the genesis of institutions? This is the first question which will be addressed in the present paper. While the importance of incremental or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619541
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It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784949
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Comment on Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor (2008): “Are voters sensitive to terrorism? Direct evidence from the Israeli electorate”
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In “Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate,“ Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor analyze the causal effects of terrorist attacks on the political preferences of the Israeli electorate. In this comment, I discuss Berrebi and Klor's empirical approach -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685487
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Corporate Tax Competition and Coordination in the European Union: What do we know? Where do we stand?
Nicodeme, Gaetan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper reviews the rationales and facts about corporate tax coordination in Europe. Although statutory tax rates have dramatically declined, revenues collected from corporate taxation are fairly stable and there is so far no evidence of a race-to-the-bottom. The ambiguous results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616901
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Why might climate change not cause conflict? an agent-based computational response
Hassani Mahmooei, Behrooz; Parris, Brett - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we first briefly review the recent literature on climate change, resource scarcity and conflict. This is then followed by introducing an agent based computational model based on the theory of production and conflict which is capable of simulating the dynamics of micro-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110860
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Heuristic Schelling: economy of organized crime
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132735