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Conflict Experiences and Household Expectations on Recovery: Survey Evidence from Northern Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

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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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

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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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique

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

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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The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Transnational Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results

Schneider, Friedrich; Caruso, Raul - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The financial means of international terror and transnational organized crime organizations are analyzed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...

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Employment Restrictions and Political Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Miaari, Sami; Zussman, Asaf; Zussman, Noam - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations during the first phase of the Intifada....

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Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism: A Survey

Haigner, Stefan; Schneider, Friedrich; Wakolbinger, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Policy programs on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) have largely called for preventive measures like keeping record of financial transactions and reporting suspicious ones. In this survey study, we analyze the extent of global money laundering and...

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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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Counter-Terrorism in a Police State: The KGB and Codename Blaster, 1977

Harrison, Mark - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

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 the relative strengths of open and closed societies....

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Rogue State Behavior and Markets: The Financial Fallout of North Korean Nuclear Tests

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

Financial markets react to major political events. The two nuclear tests conducted by North Korea in 2006 and 2009 were a sober confirmation of the nuclear weapon capacity of this state with the concomitant potential security threat this posed for the stability of the greater region. We examine...

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