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How Crime can Affect Economic Performance through the Application of an ECM-Model: the Case of Guatemala
Ruiz Estrada, M.A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258758
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New Wars in Numbers. An exploration of various datasets on intra-state violence.
Rigterink, Anouk S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
has the violence against civilians over the period 1989-2010. Evidence on the participation of non-state combatants is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258819
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Violence and human security policy relevance of a central health linkage
Meddings, David; Bettcher, Douglas; Ghafele, Roya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Violence, as a human security threat, constitutes a core public health issue. Finally, in an era of globalized threats … requiring international cooperation, the discussion focuses on the interstate spillover effects of violence, or in other words …” in the 21st century; in particular our analysis focuses on the implications of the violence case study for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258854
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How Crime can Affect Economic Performance through the Application of an ECM-Model: the Case of Guatemala
Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260581
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Impact of terrorism on investment decisions of farmers: evidence from the Punjab insurgency
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for a particular channel through which sustained terrorism in rural areas may affect growth in developing countries. Using micro-level data from agricultural surveys during the period of insurgency in Punjab (India), I find significant negative effects of terrorism...
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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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Effects of television advertising on children: with special reference to pakistani urban children
Abideen, Zain Ul; Salaria, Rashid M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The purpose of study is to deliberate upon the impacts of television advertising on children & to identify those critical impacts which lead to behavioral and eating disorder in children. Impacts of TV advertising were identified as unnecessary purchasing, low nutritional food and materialism. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560973
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New Wars on the Balkans - Business as Usual
Genchev, Vassil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The monopoly over the exercise of violence is the main defining element of states according to the Weberian ideal …
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Continuing Conflict and Stalemate: A Note
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This note is about the possibility of a stalemate in a continuing conflict. Following the prevailing economic literature on the topic, under some assumptions, the outcome of a conflict can be described in two ways: (i) a predetermined split of a contested output; (ii) a winner-take-all contest...
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836969