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The Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout: How Conservatives Profit from Rainy Election Days

Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … contribution is the comparison of municipal and state elections. …

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Driven by the Markets?: ECB Sovereign Bond Purchases and the Securities Markets Programme

Belke, Ansgar - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to purchase European government bonds - to ensure an “orderly monetary policy transmission mechanism”. Many observers argued that, by bond purchases, national fiscal policies could...

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The Effects of Terrorism and War on the Oil and Prices Stock Indices Relationship

Kollias, Christos; Kyrtsou, Catherine; Papadamou, Stephanos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper, investigates the effect war and terrorism, have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of …

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Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country

Gardeazabal, Javier - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the 40 years of Franco's dictatorship the use of the Basque language was banned. Therefore, there may be some linguistic roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We...

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Terrorism Induced Cross-Market Transmission of Shocks: A Case Study Using Intraday Data

Kollias, Christos; Papadamou, Stephanos; Siriopoulos, Costas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Terrorist incidents exert a negative, albeit generally short-lived, impact on markets and equity returns. Given the integration of global financial markets, mega-terrorist events also have a high contagion potential with their shock waves being transmitted across countries and markets. This...

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Has Stock Markets' Reaction to Terrorist Attacks Changed throughout Time?: Comparative Evidence from a Large and a Small Capitalisation Market

Kollias, Christos; Manou, Efthalia; Papadamou, Stephanos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

An expanding body of literature has addressed the question of the economic impact terrorist attacks have. A part of this literature has focused on the impact recent major terrorist hits had on financial markets. The question addressed by this paper is to what extent markets' reaction to major...

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Terrorism and Trade

Nitsch, Volker; Schumacher, Dieter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist …

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An Economic Analysis of Security Policies

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include...

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Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting …. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well … global terrorism and crime, and show that worries about terrorism are driven by similar determinants as those about crime …

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On the Interaction between Fear and Hatred

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of …

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