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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

status, employment, perception of corruption, feeling of security, religiosity, and other sociodemographic factors. …

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Mild deglobalization : foreign investment screening and cross-border investment

Eichenauer, Vera; Wang, Feicheng - 2024

Openness to foreign investments is associated with national security risks. To mitigate these risks, many high …-income countries have strengthened the control of foreign investments in an increasing number of sectors considered security … stake below 50 percent. The findings call policymakers’ attention to weighing the benefits of national security against the …

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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011

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.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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When to expect a coup d'état? : an extreme bounds analysis of coup determinants

Gassebner, Martin; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016

Over the last several decades, both economists and political scientists have shown interest in coups d’état. Numerous studies have been dedicated to understanding the causes of coups. However, model uncertainty still looms large. About one hundred potential determinants of coups have been...

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The better route to global tax coordination : gradualism or multilateralism?

Konrad, Kai A.; Thum, Marcel - 2018

In the context of international tax coordination incomplete information is one of the well-known frictions that can lead to bargaining failure and might explain a lack of observed coordination. We consider international negotiations about tax coordination under complete and incomplete...

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Industrial espionage and productivity

Glitz, Albrecht; Meyersson, Erik - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based on a dataset that comprises the entire flow of...

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Mediated terrorism : US news and al-Qaeda attacks

Jetter, Michael - 2017

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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The effect of migration on terror : made at home or imported from abroad?

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul - 2017

We investigate whether the stock of foreigners residing in a country leads to a larger number of terrorist attacks on that country. Our instrument for the stock of foreigners relies on the interaction of two sets of variables. Variation across host-origin-dyads results from structural...

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Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?

Gutmann, Jerg; Pitlik, Hans; Fronaschütz, Andrea - 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused disruptions in international trade and highlighted the dependency of small open economies in Europe on imports, especially of energy. These events may have changed Europeans' attitude towards globalization. We study two waves of representative...

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Immigration, political ideologies and the polarization of American politics

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2020

We study the extent to which migrant inflows to the United States affect the political polarization of campaign donors and the ideology of politicians campaigning for the House of Representatives in the 1992-2016 period. Implementing various polarization measures based on ideology data derived...

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