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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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How does electoral accountability affect the effectiveness of terrorism prevention in a democracy? We analyze the … connection between electoral accountability and policy effectiveness in the context of terrorism prevention. We develop a formal … objective of terrorism prevention and have symmetric information. We show that electoral pressures to be successful in terrorism …
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This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter …-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences … of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the …
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This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter …-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences … of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is important to regarding of the issue of counter-terrorism policy. Moreover the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003956028
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi … significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Our results are … 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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How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large …
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Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting Islamic immigrants in Germany. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data …
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The risk of recurrent outbreaks following the main waves of a pandemic has been acknowledged. We provide evidence of the scale and duration of this outbreak risk. We compile municipal public health records and use national data to model the stochastic process of mortality rates after the main...
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This paper is the first to analyse the three-way relationship among money laundering, anti-money-laundering efforts and corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of being detected, then corruption represents a...
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Proceeds from illicit activities percolate into the legal economy through several channels. We exploit international regulations targeting money laundering via the financial sector to identify the flows of “dirty money” into legitimate establishments: business-based money laundering...
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