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We analyze the causal effect of the stock of foreigners residing in a country on the probability of a terrorist attack in that country. Our instrument for the stock of foreigners relies on the interactions of two sets of variables. Variation across host-origin-dyads results from structural...
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We examine sources of biased terror perceptions. In particular, we investigate how international experts of the IFO World Economic Survey assess the effect of terror on the world economy and the economy of their own country. The results show that respondents from terror stricken countries have...
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the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and Christianity, where we are able to differentiate between individuals who …
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We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i …
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A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in … types of ideologically or ethnically motivated terrorism make it plausible that they respond differently to specific social … strength) or nationalist-separatist terrorism (e.g., ethnic polarization, non-violent protest). However, both types of …
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Current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …
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This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …
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This paper presents an empirical test for the hypothesis that US news coverage of al-Qaeda causes al-Qaeda attacks. To isolate causality, disaster deaths worldwide provide an instrumental variable crowding out al-Qaeda coverage. Studying daily al-Qaeda coverage by CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News, as...
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We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a positive impact of mining on conflict at the local level....
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Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...
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