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Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War
Glick, Reuven; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all...
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A; Klor, Esteban F; Miaari, Sami; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791998
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions and the Cycle of Violence
Jaeger, David A; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123813
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The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Jaeger, David A; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or 'Al-Aqsa') Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661712
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The Economics of the International Arms Trade
Levine, Paul L; Sen, Somnath; Smith, Ron P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
-looking suppliers whose welfare depends on both the economic benefits from the sales and the security repercussions of recipient … crucial. Finally, we examine the impact of supplier cooperation of the sort currently being discussed in the UN Security …
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Macroeconomic Consequences of Terror: Theory and the Case of Israel
Eckstein, Zvi; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
and consumption go down as well. Governments can offset terror by putting tax revenues into the production of security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504271
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Public Safety and the Moral Dilemma in the Defense Against Terror
Franck, Raphael; Hillman, Arye L.; Krausz, Miriam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The economic theory of defense has traditionally described public safety as achieved through investments that deter adversaries. Deterrence is however ineffective, and preemptive defense is required, when a population of intended victims confronts supreme-value suicide terror. A moral dilemma...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124376
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Defense R&D in the Anti-Terrorist Era
Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
, and the extent to which security against terrorism is (still) a public good. I develop for that purpose a simple model of …, security against terrorism becomes a mixed private/public good. A key result of the model is that the government should spend … security. Intelligence emerges as the key aspect of the war against terrorism and, accordingly, R&D aimed at providing advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136658
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F; Gassebner, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...
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The Lifeboat Problem
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study an all-pay contest with multiple identical prizes ("lifeboat seats"). Prizes are partitioned into subsets of prizes ("lifeboats"). Players play a two-stage game. First, each player chooses an element of the partition ("a lifeboat"). Then each player competes for a prize in the subset...
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