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Mechanical and Psychological Effects of Electoral Reform

Fiva, Jon H. - 2011

Duverger (1954) noted that changes in electoral systems will have two types of effects: mechanical effects, and reactions of political agents in anticipation of these, which he referred to as psychological effects. It is complicated to empirically separate the two effects since these occur...

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The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important : On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists

Ortmann, Andreas - 2010

To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the...

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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Lock, Stock, and Barrel : A Comprehensive Assessment of the Determinants of Terror

Gassebner, Martin - 2011

most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i …

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Looking Back on Anger : Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist - Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007

Brockhoff, Sarah - 2012

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...

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The Effect of Terrorist Incidents on Capital Flows

Filer, Randall K. - 2013

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...

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The Effect of Migration on Terror - Made at Home or Imported from Abroad?

Dreher, Axel - 2017

We analyze the causal effect of the stock of foreigners residing in a country on the probability of a terrorist attack … probability of a terrorist attack increases with a larger number of foreigners living in a country. However, this scale effect is … terrorist attacks against foreigners in their host country. High skilled migrants are associated with a significantly lower risk …

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Terror Per Capita

Jetter, Michael - 2017

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970-2014, we show that three stylized findings are overturned in terms...

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Terrorist Attacks and Financial Markets

Bonekamp, Bas - 2017

This paper investigates the magnitude and the duration of the effect of a terrorist attack on stock market indices. We … terrorist attacks on stock market indices. We conclude that both the magnitude and the duration of the effect are moderate and …

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Negative Returns : U.S. Military Policy and Anti-American Terrorism

Dimant, Eugen - 2017

We investigate the effect of U.S. military aid and U.S. troop deployments on anti-American terrorism, using a sample of 106 countries between 1986 and 2011. We find that greater military commitment leads to more anti-American terrorism. We study the underlying mechanisms using a mediation...

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