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empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We … combine demand and supply data and apply a simultaneous-equation approach to address the problem of endogenous premium … decisions. The main finding is that demand for property and catastrophe insurance are not very different and that the demand for …
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We study the panel DOLS estimator of a homogeneous cointegration vector for a balanced panel of N individuals observed … demand function from a panel of 19 countries with annual observations that span from 1957 to 1996. The estimated income … approximation to the exact finite sample distribution. We use panel dynamic OLS to estimate coefficients of the long-run money …
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inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different … units who respond in initial waves of the panel may drop out in subsequent waves, so that the subsample with complete data … for all waves of the panel can be less representative of the population than the original sample. Sometimes, in the hope …
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political terrorism in the 1970's. The subsequent economic evolution of this 'counterfactual' Basque Country without terrorism … is compared to the actual experience of the Basque Country. We find that, after the outbreak of terrorism, per capita GDP …
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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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terrorism on economics and psychology is difficult because institutions also change in response to terrorist attacks. This paper … exposed to the attacks. I find that terrorism leads to declines in trust, subjective well-being, and the importance of … creativity and freedom. However, at the macro-level, terrorism leads to increases in economic output and household income. These …
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We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …
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This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...
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The literature on conflict and terrorism has paid little attention to the economic costs of terrorism for the …
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