Marginal deterrence in the enforcement of law: Evidence from distributed denial of service attack

• Main Authors: HUI, Kai-Lung, KIM, Seung-Hyun, QIU-HONG WANG
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Marginal deterrence; Cyber attacks; Convention of Cybercrime; Law Enforcement and Corrections
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3518; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4519/viewcontent/marginal_deterrence__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

By studying a panel dataset of distributed denial of service attack across 240 countriesover 5 years, we find that enforcing the Convention on Cybercrime had increasedthe intensity of attack by 43 to 52 percent. It did not significantly reducethe chance for a country to be selected for the attack. W...