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Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...
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clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results … suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …
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all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …
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This paper focuses on the interaction between uncertainty and insurability in the context of some of the risks associated with climate change. It discusses the evolution of insured losses due to weather-related disasters over the past decade, and the key drivers of the sharp increases in both...
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This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …
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Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of research into the causes and consequences of civil wars, belatedly bringing the topic into the economics mainstream. This article critically reviews this interdisciplinary...
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, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the …; version 7.0 of the Penn World Table will soon incorporate these results. The 2005 ICP, like earlier rounds, involved …
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Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same period, terror attacks have increased. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we examine the effects of terror attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes...
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We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...
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cannot rule out that it constitutes efficient policing given important differences between deterrence of terrorism versus …
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