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We identify research gaps and recent contributions in the economics of terror. We focus on the human drivers of insecurity as a key topic. Insecurity shapes growth, perceptions of individuals, and policy responses. The economics of security policies remains large under-researched.
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European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), Supplement 1, S. S1-S4
| Tilman Brück, Friedrich Schneider
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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 ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), Supplement 1, S. S78-S88
| Tilman Brück, Fernanda Llussá, José A. Tavares
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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
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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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The Vancouver Olympics reveal stark differences between the worlds of sports and science. In both, young people from around the world try to surpass all previous accomplishments in pursuit of world records or scientific discoveries. Selected entirely on merit, athletes receive honor just for participating in the games, spurring the next generation of young people in each nation to excel. And as star ...
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Science
328 (2010), 5974, S. 17
| Tilman Brück, Catherine Beaudry, Hans Hilgenkamp, Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri, Hiba Salah-Eldin Mohamed, Gregory A. Weiss
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This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability ...
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The Economic Journal
120 (2010), 545, S. 816-844
| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Psychologists and economists take contradictory approaches to research on what psychologists call happiness or subjective well-being, and economists call subjective utility. A directtest of the most widely accepted psychological theory, set-point theory, shows it to be flawed. Results are then given, using the economists' newer "choice approach" - an approach also favored by positive psychologists ...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
107 (2010), 42, S. 17922-17926
| Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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In this article, we analyse stylized facts for Germany's business cycle at the firm level. Based on longitudinal firm-level data from the Bundesbank's balance sheet statistics covering, on average, 55 000 firms per year from 1971 to 1998, we estimate transition probabilities of a firm in a certain real sales growth regime switching to another regime in the next period, e.g. whether a firm that has ...
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Applied Economics
42 (2010), 29, S. 3789-3802
| Jörg Döpke, Sebastian Weber
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Increasing work incentives for people with low income is a common topic in the policy debate across European countries. The 'Mini-Job' reform in Germany had a similar motivation. We carry out an ex-post evaluation to identify the short-run effects of this reform. Our identification strategy uses an exogenous variation in the interview months in the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which allows us ...
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Applied Economics
42 (2010), 19, S. 2475-2489
| Marco Caliendo, Katharina Wrohlich
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We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including marginal employment, i.e. low-paying jobs with only a few working hours and partially exempted from employee's social security contributions. Using a new panel data set for Germany, the model is estimated both for the number of workers and total working hours. For unskilled and skilled ...
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Applied Economics Letters
17 (2010), 12, S. 1177-1182
| Ronny Freier, Viktor Steiner