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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ten New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047876
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame - 2011
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows to test for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122115
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153507
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The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment : Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09
Khan, Sarah - 2016
data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the …Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … terrorism had little effect on school enrolment. High levels of exposure reduced the enrolment rate for boys by about 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983905
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Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence between the United States and the Taliban
Jaeger, David A. - 2012
Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any …/Al-Qaeda violence in Pakistan. We find that our results are robust to examining different time periods and lag structures. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112783
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British Voting Intentions and the Far Reach of 11 September Terrorist Attacks in New York
Stancanelli, Elena - 2023
Terrorist attacks have often been found to impact voting behaviours in the country of the attack. Here I study the impact of 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York on voting preferences in the UK, concluding that 9/11 impacted the voting intentions of the British, significantly increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350714
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764240
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Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval
Brodeur, Abel - 2019
Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861315
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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838460
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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan - 2018
Terror has become a global issue. Terror acts perpetuated by religious, nationalist or political groups around the globe can propagate distress rapidly through different channels and possibly change political attitudes. This paper suggests the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915718