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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …
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This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
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When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
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Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...
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To examine the impact of Rwandaś 1994 genocide on childrenś schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age groupś baseline schooling and exploits variation across...
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What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- Terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …
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developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat the financing of terrorism. -- Financial flows of terrorist …
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The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism … Database and show that there have been major shifts in terror activity and composition over time. -- terrorism ; terror groups …
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disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts - on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues … them, to create growth from the ruins of extreme events. -- natural disaster ; terrorism ; violent conflict ; entrepreneur …
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To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions … alternative specifications. The threat of terrorism systematically rises as low-income polities become richer, peaking at an … pattern emerges for domestic and transnational terrorism alike. Peaks in the income-terrorism relationship differ by …
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