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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan

Gassebner, Martin - 2020

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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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2021

In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...

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Extraterritorial Trade Sanctions : Theory and Application to the US-Iran-EU Conflict

Janeba, Eckhard - 2022

, but ii) emerge if a second activity (“sponsor international terrorism”) is not verifiable, and the sanctioning countries …

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The Effect of Corruption on Internal Conflict in Iran Using Newspaper Coverage

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to track the response of...

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War and Entrepreneurship : A Synthetic Control Study of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Audretsch, David B.; Momtaz, Paul P.; Motuzenko, Hanna; … - 2023

Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the Russo-Ukrainian...

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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022

Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In this paper, we examine how international trade regimes...

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International Sanctions and Internal Conflict: The Case of Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gutmann, Jerg - 2024

quarterly data on internal conflict and its three subcomponents (civil disorder, terrorism, and civil war) as well as a sanction … terrorism risk. In contrast, the risk of civil war declines after an increase in sanction intensity. These findings for Iran …

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Fifty Years of Peril: A Comprehensive Comparison of the Impact of Terrorism and Disasters Linked to Natural Hazards (1970-2019)

Wilson, Timothy; Noy, Ilan - 2022

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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Cash and Conflict: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger

Premand, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic - 2023

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets. The...

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Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany

Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023

Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi … publishers and that this coverage focuses on Islam and terror. Overall, and in contrast to previous work, we find terrorism is …

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