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Paying them to hate US : the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism, 1968-2014
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
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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Negative returns : U.S. military policy and anti-American terrorism
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 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 ….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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The risks of nation-building through military aid and intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380559
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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?
Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010
This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951612
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Do banks pass through credit expansions? : the marginal profitability of consumer lending during the Great Recession
Agarwal, Sumit; Chomsisengphet, Souphala; Mahoney, Neale; … - 2015
We examine the ability of policymakers to stimulate household borrowing and spending during the Great Recession by reducing banks' cost of funds. Using panel data on 8.5 million U.S. credit card accounts and 743 credit limit regression discontinuities, we estimate the marginal propensity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343066
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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions - characterized by substantial overweighting of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621724
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Present-focused preferences and sin goods consumption at the extensive and intensive margins
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2020
This paper analyzes sin goods consumption when individuals exhibit present-focused preferences. It considers three types of present focus: present-bias with varying degrees of naiveté, Gul-Pesendorfer preferences, and a dual-self approach. We investigate the incentives to deviate from healthy...
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Information frictions and adverse selection : policy interventions in health insurance markets
Handel, Benjamin R.; Kolstad, Jonathan; Spinnewijn, Johannes - 2015
A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392504
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Weapons of choice
Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015
goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286479
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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism
Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014
-market order deliberately target the USA, where anti-American terrorism serves the purpose of limiting the perceived marketization …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 …
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