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Protectionism and Economic Growth : Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. The...
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Long-Run Linkages between US Stock Prices and Cryptocurrencies : A Fractional Cointegration Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; de Dios Mazariegos, José Javier - 2022
This paper applies fractional integration and cointegration methods to examine respectively the univariate properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014239604
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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin - 2020
organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830355
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892254
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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Trade Openness on Financial Development : Some Panel Evidence for Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2021
This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including data on 35 European countries over the period 2001-2019. For this purpose, it uses the PMG (pooled mean group) estimator for dynamic panels developed by Pesaran et al. (1999). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227601
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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany
Deole, Sumit S. - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908664
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Religiosity and Terrorism : Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hodler, Roland - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892037
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Class Warfare : Political Exclusion of the Poor and the Roots of Social-Revolutionary Terrorism, 1860-1950
Klotzbuecher, Valentin; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2021
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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Under Attack : Terrorism and International Trade in France, 2014-16
Nitsch, Volker; Rabaud, Isabelle - 2021
paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series of three large-scale terrorist incidents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224092
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Paying Them to Hate Us : The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen - 2020
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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