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EUSECON Policy Briefing 2 / 2011
The problem of piracy and other forms of maritime security is actually less severe than many people perceive. Nevertheless, it is a problem that needs to be addressed. To solve the problems around Somalia, the naval involvement should continue, and effective punishment for piracy must be increased. Finally, in order to fight the long-term occurrence of piracy, a land-based solution must be found. Such ...
2011| Olaf J. de Groot, Marc Vothknecht
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EUSECON Policy Briefing 1 / 2011
The New Agenda for European Security Economics (EUSECON) is a project that, since 2008, explores the challenges and opportunities in research on human-induced security risks. After defining security as a good that has both public and private characteristics, the research focuses on different elements within the wider issue. The research addresses the factors that influence agents of insecurity and ...
2011| Olaf J. de Groot, Myroslava Purska
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we testif aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. We find that positive regime changes and wars are significant predictors of aid accelerations. The results also suggest the presence of aid spill-overs, ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
28 (2012), 4, S. 593-606
| Tilman Brück, Guo Xu
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Security is often defined as the absence of threats. However, security has far more aspects, reaching from security of nation states to health security. Baldwin (1997) formulated seven questions to narrow the (broad) concept of security. Along with Baldwin's questions, this paper analyses 'security' in the context of private, public, and club goods and their changing mixture. On the individual level, ...
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Defence & Peace Economics
22 (2011), 2, S. 135-145
| Hella Engerer
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the international naval mission in the Gulf of Aden from 2008 to 2010, both in terms of its counter-piracy and its counter-terrorism objectives. We draw on arguments developed in the literature of terrorism and law and economics, detailed statistical analyses and a large number of in depth interviews. Counter-piracy operations are a qualified success: their ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), Supplement 1, S. S133-S151
| Anja Shortland, Marc Vothknecht
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We use aggregate country data as well as individual surveys to uncover, for the first time, the effect of extreme events such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks on entrepreneurial activity. We find that natural disasters and terrorist attacks influence individual perceptions of the rewards to entrepreneurship and, more surprisingly, extreme events affect entrepreneurship rates positively in ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), Supplement 1, S. S78-S88
| Tilman Brück, Fernanda Llussá, José A. Tavares
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Transnational terrorism in Western countries has raised questions about security measures that constrain civil liberties. This is the first paper that uses a terrorist attack, that in the London 7/7/2005, as an exogenous source of variation to study the dynamics of risk perception and the effect on the readiness to trade off civil liberties for enhanced security. In this framework we show that willingness ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), Supplement 1, S. S89-S106
| Carlos Bozzoli, Cathérine Müller