Final EUSECON Workshop and Policy Session
European Security Economics: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward

The EUSECON project will hold its Final Workshop and the Policy Session on 6 - 7 February 2012 in Brussels. The Workshop is co-organised and hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

What are the driving forces behind terrorist activities and organised crime? How does insecurity impact individuals and the private sector and how do they respond to it? What is the role of European policy in dealing with these threats? What new forms of insecurity, such as maritime piracy, have emerged recently? These and other questions have been the focus of the four-year research project EUSECON. Click here to download the programme. For more information and for the online registration form please go the event webpage.

EUSECON workshop on the macroeconomic impacts of insecurity and security policies

The workshop will focus on the economic significance of human-induced insecurity (terrorism and organised crime) and the trade-offs of European security policies. The workshop is organised by Tilman Brück (DIW Berlin) and Christos Kollias (University of Thessaly). It will be held on 27 May 2011 at University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. Please download the programme here.

EUSECON workshop on the microeconomic analysis of determinants and effects of insecurity

The central theme of the workshop is the output of the two work packages that use micro-economic data to analyze the structure and behaviour of different agents of insecurity and individual and private sector responses to insecurity and security policies. The workshop is organized by Tilman Brück and Jitka Malečková and will be held on 8 April 2011 at DIW Berlin, Germany. Please see the programme for further details.

EUSECON Policy Workshop

The EUSECON Consortium will hold three small-scale workshops dedicated each to microeconomic, macroeconomic and policy aspects of the project. The first meeting in the series, organised jointly by DIW Berlin and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), was held on 23 November 2010 in Hamburg. The workshop was dedicated to policy implications of the research undertaken in the project. Please see the pragramme here.

EUSECON Interim Project Workshop

The interim workshop of the EUSECON Project was held on April 12-13, 2010 at the Athens University of Economics and Business in Athens, Greece.

EUSECON Workshop Programme

Session 1: European Security Economics – An Overview

Friedrich Schneider, Johannes-Kepler-University, Linz
Tilman Brück, DIW Berlin
An Update on the Survey of the Economics of Security
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Session 2: The European Security Industry

Carlos Martí Sempere, Isdefe, Madrid
A Survey of the European Security Industrial Market
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Session 3: Conceptual Developments within European Security Economics

Oldřich Krulík, CUNI - Charles University Prague
Two Years of European Security Economics: Knowledge Generated by EUSECON
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Libor Stejskal, CUNI - Charles University Prague
Role of Citizens in Security: Economic, Demographic, and Political Aspects

Eric van Um, IFSH - Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, Hamburg
Discussing Concepts of Terrorist Rationality: Implications for Counter-Terrorism Policy
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Session 4: The Economics of Criminal Organizations and their Activities

Scott Gates, Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO, Oslo
Quitting Terror: Examining Exit Strategies in Organizations with Endogenized Enforcement Mechanisms

Federico Varese, Oxford University, Department of Criminology
Mechanisms of Mafia Transplantation in New York City, Rosario and China

Anja Shortland, DIW Berlin
The Pirates of Somalia: Coastguards of Anarchy
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Session 5: Terrorism and Public Opinion

Jitka Malečková, Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Prague
Dragana Stanišić, Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Prague
Public Opinion and Terrorist Acts
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Javier Gardeazabal, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Vote Shares in Spanish General Elections as a Fractional Response to the Economy and Conflict
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Konstantinos Drakos, Athens University of Economics and Business
Cathérine Müller, DIW Berlin
An Econometric Analysis of Terrorism Risk Concern in Europe using Eurobarometer Data
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Session 6: Terrorism and Finance

Christos Kollias, University of Thessaly
Apostolos Stagiannis, University of Thessaly
The Reaction of FX Markets to Terrorist Activity: Comparative Evidence from Greece and the UK
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Friedrich Schneider, Johannes-Kepler-University, Linz
The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results
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Session 7: Causes of Terrorism

Esteban Klor, Hebrew University, Department of Economics, Jerusalem
Counter-Suicide-Terrorism: Evidence from House Demolitions

Martin Gassebner, ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
The Roots Of Terrorism: Economic Development, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
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EUSECON Project Workshop

The EUSECON consortium met in Brussels on September 23-24, 2008 for its first project workshop.

The Project Workshop provided the opportunity for partners from Work Package 1 to present their initial outputs on the project's conceptual framework.