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Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
Brodeur, Abel - 2015
This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local … randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the economic impacts of terrorism. The findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401800
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The Economics of Mass Shootings
Brodeur, Abel; Yousaf, Hasin - 2019
counties' employment and earnings. As well, successful mass shootings decrease housing prices and consumer confidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179921
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059072
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Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2017
This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744490
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261991
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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - 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/10012207771
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Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021
This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of … identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first confirm that the success of terror attacks is plausibly random by showing … terrorism has less of an influence on voters than is usually thought. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497935
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703639
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Constitutions and economic development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
parliamentary systems, such as larger public employment, and more equitable income distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287652
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The cycle of violence? An empirical analysis of fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2005
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or Al-Aqsa) Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276241