Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for … economic development of countries experiencing civil war. Civil war may also contribute to creative destructions of traditional … economic, social and political system, leading to a more rapid post-war growth. Until now little research exists tackling …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

international conflict. In this paper, we investigate whether this motive is sufficiently important for war to persist in … Immanuel Kant (1795, 1991) always exists. The reason is that in the absence of the threat of war, leaders are unable to divert … exist with a positive war frequency. Third, if multiple equilibria exist, the perpetual peace equilibrium may be unstable in …

significant difference between second-generation families and native families. The effect of the Lebanon War is much less than …

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …

Current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in … types of ideologically or ethnically motivated terrorism make it plausible that they respond differently to specific social … conditions and changes. We show that there are indeed factors that matter either to left-wing (e.g., the Cold War, leftist party …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …

How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democ- racy? We analyze the … connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal … objective of terrorism prevention and have symmetric information. We show that electoral pressures to be successful in terrorism …