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underprovision, raise overall counterterrorism, and reduce terrorism. Welfare decreases in the politically influenced country but … increases in the other targeted country owing to enhanced free riding. Lobbying influence on the targeted countries’ welfare is … tied to terrorists’ targeting preferences and how the lobbied government weighs citizens’ welfare. For key parametric …
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This paper takes a unique approach to the scenario where a resident terrorist group in a (fragile) developing nation poses a terrorism threat at home and abroad. The host developing nation’s proactive countermeasures against the resident terrorist group not only limits terrorism at home and...
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This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation that exports a manufactured good to and imports a primary product from a developing nation. A terrorist organization targets both nations and reduces its attacks in response to...
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We study the effect of leadership in an experimental threshold public "bad" game, where we manipulate both the relative returns of two investments (the more productive of which causes a negative externality) and the extent to which the gains from leadership diffuse to the group. The game...
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conditions under which these relationships hold. Since global welfare always rises with an improvement in offshoring technology …
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, terrorism can be shown to be welfare augmenting for a group of nations. Finally, we present some qualitative conditions that … identify when a nation's trade volume may rise (or fall) in response to a greater incidence of terrorism. Our trade and welfare …
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This paper constructs a model of trade consequences of terrorism, where firms in trading nations face different costs arising from domestic and transnational terrorism. Using dyadic dataset in a gravity model, we test terrorism’s effects on overall trade, exports, and imports, while...
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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