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This paper sheds new light on the role of communication for cartel formation. Using machine learning to evaluate free …-form chat communication among firms in a laboratory experiment, we identify typical communication patterns for both explicit … sanctions on communication reinforces the direct cartel-deterring effect of sanctions as collusion is more difficult to reach …
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the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …
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This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …
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In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
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This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
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We examine the effect of class cleavages on terrorist activity by anarchist and leftist terrorist groups in 99 American, Asian and European countries over the 1860-1950 period. We find that higher levels of political exclusion of the poor, our main measure of class conflict, were associated with...
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paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series of three large-scale terrorist incidents …
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provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism. We find that higher levels of military … aid led to an increased likelihood of the recipient country to produce anti-American terrorism. For our preferred … instrumental-variable specification, doubling U.S. military aid increases the risk of anti-American terrorism by 4.4 percentage …
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This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
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We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two … impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger realised impact in all regions in both gross and per-capita terms. The largest … cross-peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million Lifeyears, while terrorism took ten …
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