Dangerous games: A literature review on cybersecurity investments

A Fedele, C Roner - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cybersecurity has gained prominence in the decision‐making of firms. Due to the increasing
occurrences of threats in the cyberspace, investments in cybersecurity have become critical …

Networks of conflict and cooperation

JM Larson - Annual Review of Political Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Conflict and cooperation do not result from isolated individual actions. In settings such as
insurgency, interstate conflict, protest mobilization, and informal governance, actors are …

War and conflict in economics: Theories, applications, and recent trends

EO Kimbrough, K Laughren, R Sheremeta - Journal of Economic Behavior …, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the main economic models of war and conflict. These models vary in details, but
their implications are qualitatively consistent, highlighting key commonalities across a …

Network security and contagion

D Acemoglu, A Malekian, A Ozdaglar - Journal of Economic Theory, 2016 - Elsevier
We develop a theoretical model of security investments in a network of interconnected
agents. Network connections introduce the possibility of cascading failures due to an …

Contests: Theory and topics

Q Fu, Z Wu - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and …, 2019 - oxfordre.com
Competitive situations resembling contests are ubiquitous in modern economic landscape.
In a contest, economic agents expend costly effort to vie for limited prizes, and they are …

A dynamic game approach to strategic design of secure and resilient infrastructure network

J Chen, C Touati, Q Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrastructure networks are vulnerable to both cyber and physical attacks. Building a secure
and resilient networked system is essential for providing reliable and dependable services …

Networks and systemic risk in the financial system

P Gai, S Kapadia - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The complex web of exposures and interlinkages across the financial system highlights the
relevance of network analysis in understanding systemic risk and guiding the design of …

The optimal defense of networks of targets

D Kovenock, B Roberson - Economic Inquiry, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines a game‐theoretic model of attack and defense of multiple networks of
targets in which there exist intranetwork strategic complementarities among targets. The …

Ransomware activity and blockchain congestion

K Sokolov - Journal of Financial Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
I examine blockchain congestion episodes caused by more than 4,400 triggers for
ransomware attacks over a two-year period. When demand for settlement exceeds …

Micro-targeting and polarization

A Prummer - Journal of Public Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper connects the rise in polarization to changes in media technology, which allow for
higher precision in the advertising strategy of candidates. Candidates place ads in media …