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EUSECON Policy Briefing 12 / 2011
The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the perpetrators of terror attacks. Our research fills that gap by examining the economic costs of harboring suicide terror attacks. We combine data on Palestinian suicide terrorists with data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey, to identify and quantify the impact of a successful attack on ...
2011| Claude Berrebi, Esteban F. Klor
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 11 / 2011
In this Policy Briefing we address the question of whether there is a coherent and consistent policy when it comes to giving development aid. While one would theoretically argue that aid provision should be based on objective criteria set out to optimize governments' behavior or people's welfare, we find that this is not the case. While specific countries may be optimizing their objectives in international ...
2011| Tilman Brück, Olaf J. de Groot, Guo Xu
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 10 / 2011
At present and in the medium-term perspective, the security systems of most European countries are challenged by a number of social and economic trends: demographic change and the selective withdrawal of state authority from the security sphere. This process has been accelerated by current efforts to reduce public spending. This briefing describes the approaches of several European countries in relation ...
2011| Oldrich Krulík, Libor Stejskal
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 9 / 2011
In this Policy Briefing, we address two important questions. We look at the drivers of concern about terrorism and find that beyond individual characteristics, it is also affected by the occurrence of terrorism. When distinguishing between permanent and transitory terrorism, the first has a much stronger impact than the first. The second question concerns how terrorism affects the policy preferences ...
2011| Olaf J. de Groot, Konstantinos Drakos, Cathérine Müller
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 8 / 2011
One of the research areas of the New Agenda for European Security Economics (EUSECON) is society's response to insecurity. Solutions to enhance security often involve the development and supply of specific goods and services. This has led to an industry which has progressively evolved through the 20th century. Yet, after the 9/11 attacks, the security industry was subject to growing demand. Moreover, ...
2011| Carlos Martí Sempere
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 7 / 2011
'The money trail' of terrorist activity has become a focus of counterterrorist policy. There has been major success in implementing international standards to prevent and detect terrorist financing. Available evidence suggests that these efforts have contributed to a decrease in transnational terrorist activity. In the wake, they are likely to have contributed to a shift from transnational to "home ...
2011| Michael Brzoska
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 6 / 2011
Our research confirms that public opinion has an impact on the occurrence of terrorism. Specifically, we find that the opinion in one country on the performance of the leader of a foreign power has an impact on the occurrence of terrorism originating from the former country and directed against the foreign power. We also find that it is important for the same group of people in a country to both justify ...
2011| Jitka Maleckova
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 5 / 2011
When defining the absence of a threat as an economic good, it is necessary to define this good using the standard economic typology: is security a private, public, club or common good? We argue in this Policy Briefing that security provision can display characteristics belonging to any of these types of goods. In recent years, we can observe a change from more publicly oriented security provision to ...
2011| Olaf J. de Groot, Hella Engerer
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 4 / 2011
Within EUSECON, one research subproject investigates the relationship between economic downturns, terrorism and electoral outcomes. The analysis is carried out using data from Spain. Recent Spanish democratic history has witnessed four complete economic cycles, with deep recessions and pronounced booms. During this period, there has been a nationalistic conflict with terrorist manifestation. This research ...
2011| Javier Gardeazabal
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 3 / 2011
Human-induced security, or terrorism, is a threat to wellbeing in Europe and beyond. In this Policy Briefing, we investigate the risks involved in terrorism, both with respect to the likelihood and with respect to the consequences of acts of terrorism. Furthermore, we provide a basic analysis of existing anti-terrorism policies, the costs involved in them and their effectiveness. We show that terrorism ...
2011| Olaf J. de Groot, Cathérine Müller