of causality and proposes a working definition of counterterrorism effectiveness. We find that a main focus of the …

Having close linkages with the counterfactual concept of causality, nonparametric matching estimators have recently …

characterizing the extent of heterogeneity within an industry that is robust with regard to extreme values of a few small firms. It … was found that the level of intra-industry heterogeneity is mainly determined by an industries' average technical …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …