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This paper, investigates the effect war and terrorism, have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of … models. Findings reported herein indicate that the covariance between stock and oil returns is affected by war. A tentative … effects. On the other hand, in the case of terrorist incidents that, vis-à-vis war, are of a more transitory nature and one …
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focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …
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This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …
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article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …
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This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war … with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the … post-war period. Market and social exchange induce only limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare …
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COW and the UCDP/PRIO for conflicts and the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators for socioeconomic data …
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We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood...
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, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of … inequalities, as well as historical grievances and contemporary foreign policy actions that discriminate against the Muslim world …
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The paper provides a rare case study of terrorism and counter-terrorism within a closed society, carried out under a … blanket of official secrecy. This case is unexpectedly revealing in what it tells us about terrorism, counterterrorism, and …
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terrorist events and 68 national stock markets. We generate daily abnormal returns from a three-factor world asset pricing model …. Abnormal returns are then regressed on proxies of three transmission mechanisms; a world integration channel,a bilateral … integration channel, and a liquidity channel. Our findings indicate that terrorism shocks are diffused cross-nationally, and …
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