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This paper, investigates the effect war and terrorism, have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of …
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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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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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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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model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist …
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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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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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, 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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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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integration channel, and a liquidity channel. Our findings indicate that terrorism shocks are diffused cross-nationally, and …
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