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The impact of terrorist attacks on foreign exchange rate : case study of Turkish lira versus pound sterling

Maitah, Mansoor; Mustofa, Jehar; Ugur, Gok - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-8

long-run. However, the negative effect of terrorism tends to be small in both the short-run and long-run. More precisely …

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From global to intra-regional tourism

Steene, Anders - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 149-164

Regardless of how society has evolved, travel and tourism have had a positive development since the end of Second World War. But now it seems that the perception of risk and danger is accentuated and the tourists choose destinations based on more safety and security for tourists. Risks often...

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Tourism stocks in times of crises : an econometric investigation of non-macro factors

Zopiatis, Anastasios; Savva, Christos S.; Lambertides, … - 2016

Europe. The relationship and vulnerability of the industry to non-macro incidents have been well documented in the literature …

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Terrorism and the media : the effect of US television coverage on Al-Qaeda attacks

Jetter, Michael - 2017

Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...

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The effect of community traumatic events on student achievement : evidence from the Beltway Sniper attacks

Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - 2015

Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...

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Does income inequality lead to terrorism? : evidence from the post-9/11 era

Krieger, Tim; Meierreiks, Daniel - 2015

We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002 … of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly accounted for by means of an instrumental-variable approach, higher levels of … terrorism is consistent with relative deprivation theory which argues that conflict results from frustration over the actual …

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Weapons of choice

Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …

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Terrorism and human capital at birth : bomb casualties and birth outcomes in Spain

Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Ródenas-Serrano, Pedro - 2014

We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining … between January 1980 and February 2003 and find that in utero exposure to terrorism early in pregnancy, as measured by the …

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Guns and butter? : fighting violence with the promise of development

Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V. - 2015

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest...

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Paradigms of European integration processes in the EU, Visegrád Group, and Ukraine

Rostetska, Svitlana; Naumkina, Svetlana - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 5 (2019) 3, pp. 184-192

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