The timing of ETA terrorist attacks

Coaching for survival: the hazards of head coach careers in the German ‘Bundesliga’

“…This technique has been previously used in sports by Okhusa (1999Okhusa ( , 2001) and Frick, Pietzner and Prinz (2006) and is currently being adopted elsewhere in fields such as labour economics (Carrasco 1999;Tribó, 2005;Cueto and Mato, 2006;Collier, 2005;Haurin and Sridhar, 2003;Gonzalo, 2002), in international relations (Box Steffensmeier, Reiter and Zorn 2003;Barros, Passos and Alana, 2005), corporate finance (Holtz-Eakin et al 1994, Orbe, Ferreira andNúñez Antón, 2002;Leung, Rigby and Young, 2003) and industry (Requena-Silvente and Walker, 2005).…”

Governments' and Terrorists' Defense and Attack in a T-Period Game

“…Berrebi and Lakdawalla (2007) consider how terrorists sought targets in Israel between 1949 and 2004, responding to costs and benefits, and find that long periods without an attack signal lower risk for most localities, but higher risk for important areas. Barros et al (2006) apply parametric and semiparametric hazard model specifications to study durations between Euskadi Ta Askatasuna's (a Spainbased terrorist group) terrorist attacks, which seem to increase in summer and decrease with respect to, e.g., deterrence and political variables. Udwadia et al (2006) consider the dynamic behavior of terrorists, those susceptible to terrorist and pacifist propaganda, military/police intervention to reduce the terrorist population, and nonviolent, persuasive intervention to influence those susceptible to becoming pacifists.…”

A Note on the Effectiveness of National Anti-Terrorist Policies: Evidence from ETA

“…It improves upon related studies (Barros, 2003;Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2003;Barros, Passos and Gil-Alana, 2006) in three ways: first, it focuses on alternative anti-terrorist policies; second, it examines explicitly their effects on the terrorist attacks; third, it uses an alternative approach based on counting models.…”