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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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The value of national defense : assessing public preferences for defense policy options
Qari, Salmai; Börger, Tobias; Lohse, Tim; Meyerhoff, … - 2023
Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good - national defense - has so far escaped assessment. Much of the literature has instead considered indirect benefits of defense spending in terms of greater economic growth or...
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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
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International trade and stable resolutions of resource disputes
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022
We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states' military capacities, but...
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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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Do China and Russia undermine US sanctions? : evidence from DiD and event study estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries' trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … sanctions. We find no evidence for systematic sanction busting. Russia does not change its trade patterns with sanctioned …
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Economic knock-on effects of Russia's geopolitical risk on advanced economies : a global VAR approach
Blagov, Boris; Dirks, Maximilian W.; Funke, Michael - 2024
Using Russia as a case study and a global VAR model as a methodological tool, we analyze how heightened geopolitical … response functions in response to the skyrocketing Russian geo-political risk shock after Russia's invasion of Ukraine revealed …
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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...
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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one's incentive to arm given the opponent's...
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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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