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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the … irrelevant to terror support. As robustness test we relate individual attitude to real-life behavior: using country panels of … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America

Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...

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The Institutional Framework and Decision Making in Sudan

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The study here reviews the institutional structure of the Sudanese government. Truly, though it is stigmatized as totalitarian, the structure is phenotypically perfect. Ministry of Ministries council is supposed to cater for analyzing data concerning ministries performance, drawing strategic...

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La información y el rumor en zonas de conflicto

Fernando, Estrada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Information sources, creation of informant networks and labors of local intelligence have become very important goals in political power calculations of the paramilitary and insurgents. Phenomena of information and rumor can disclose central aspects to understand the direction of events yet to...

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The effects of terrorist activities on foreign direct investment: nonlinear Evidence

Omay, Tolga; Takay Araz, Bahar; Ilalan, Deniz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this study, we examine the relationship between foreign direct investment and terrorist incidents that took place in Turkey for the period from 1991:12 to 2003:12. This research contributes to the literature by checking for a possible non-linear relationship between terrorism and foreign...

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Reassessing the Evolution of World Trade, 1870-1949

Klasing, Mariko; Milionis, Petros - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The typical narrative regarding the evolution of world trade prior to World War II refers to a secular rise that started around 1870 and a subsequent collapse that began in 1914. This narrative, though, is based on measures of trade openness that do not fully take into account purchasing power...

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Liberating nations from the debt burden

Rabie, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

the paper outlines a plan to liberate all rich and poor nations form the debt burden, restructure the international monetary system and create the necessary conditions for sustainable global economic growth and developemt.

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The impact of the global economic crisis on non-oil operations of ports in Iran

Ahmadzadeh Mashinchi, Sina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

It is generally accepted that the recent economic crisis of 2007-2010 has caused widespread economic recession in different countries. Since the ports and coastal regions are of great importance to economic infrastructure, this study examined the possible impact resulting from such a global...

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Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order

Pogany, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The general stream of economic thinking is thoroughly a-physical and a-historic. This direction is becoming increasingly absurd as the nexus between the human biomass and its ecological constraints ripens. Economics will eventually have to absorb apodictically that regardless of...

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Literature review concerning the relationship between globalization and regionalization in the world economy

Balasan, Andrei-Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper we review the literature on regionalization and globalization and implicitly the impact these two processes have over the world economy. Characterized by a several number of studies, this research is focused on different time periods, methodologies and model parameters. We identify...

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