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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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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 ….S. military aid and anti-American terrorism. Our findings suggest that U.S. military policy does not make the United States safer …
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This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
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Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some … capacity sufficient to supply positive local demand shocks. In the presence of uncertain demand, firms may choose to serve … the average level of excess capacity and demand volatility only for coastal areas. An increase in demand volatility is …
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are not related to the occurrence of an accident. Such a mechanism requires individuals to violate the standard of care in …
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What is the appropriate lump-sum compensation for loss of work income in personal injury cases? Since generally future work income is not known with certainty, compensation for its loss must be based on statistical considerations. Typically, courts have based awards on mean or median work...
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Courts typically base compensation for loss of income in personal injury cases on either mean or median work income. Yet, quantatively, mean and median incomes are typically very different. For example, in the US median income is 65 percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to...
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affecting the probability of apprehension and find that the likelihood of hit-and-run conditional on an accident taking place …
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We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...
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introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotellingś model of product differentiation and show that firms offer advance … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
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