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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/10003956021
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
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 … citizens of a particular country in a given year. -- causes of terrorism ; poverty and terrorism ; panel estimations ; extreme …
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international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants …
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which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value … the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
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), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …
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Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...
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We are the first to analyze the effect of terror on stock markets by terror ideology. Surprisingly, we find that Islamist terror attacks created significant negative abnormal returns in American and European markets, but the stock market effects of other terror attacks were almost nil. For our...
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country increase the risk of terror. High-skilled migrants are associated with a significantly lower risk of terror compared … to low-skilled ones, while there is no significant difference between male and female migrants. …
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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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