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Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T.N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959677
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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
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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006018
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An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade
Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744571
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761886
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Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409396
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The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005700876
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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations: A literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2010
developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat the financing of terrorism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276713
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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744640
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The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment: Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09
Khan, Sarah; Seltzer, Andrew - 2016
data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the … 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/10011559596