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and consumption go down as well. Governments can offset terror by putting tax revenues into the production of security …
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Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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interventions, the freeze on transfers and the training, improved police effectiveness and public and crime victims’ satisfaction … be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police …
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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...
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public-safety recommendations of external judges who are not personally affected by the threat of terror. …
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This Paper seeks to analyse the nature of the terrorist threat following 9/11, and to explore the implications for … part of the Paper examines the nature of the terrorist threat, focusing on the role of uncertainty, the lack of deterrence …, and the extent to which security against terrorism is (still) a public good. I develop for that purpose a simple model of …
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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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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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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...
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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...
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