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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Abadie, Alberto - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467830
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Measuring the Tolerance of the State : Theory and Application to Protest
Andirin, Veli; Neggers, Yusuf; Shadmehr, Mehdi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the regime's tolerance as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334386
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The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
Benmelech, Efraim - 2009
The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463184
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Anti-social norms
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635680
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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences
McBride, Michael - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462021
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model
Berman, Eli - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464922
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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007
all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465552
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Climate Change, Insurability of Large-scale Disasters and the Emerging Liability Challenge
Kunreuther, Howard C. - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465836
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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay
Cassoni, Adriana - 2000
This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471275
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The Economic Value of Breaking Bad : Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2019
Prevailing research argues that childhood misbehavior in the classroom is bad for schooling and, presumably, bad for labor market outcomes. In contrast, we argue that some childhood misbehavior represents underlying socio-emotional skills that are valuable in the labor market. We follow work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479555