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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael T. - 2010

Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...

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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007

Assassinations are a persistent feature of the political landscape. Using a new data set of assassination attempts on all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to identify assassination's effects. We find that, on...

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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods : Testing the Club Model

Berman, Eli - 2010

on terrorist attacks in the Middle East: Radical religious clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often …, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …

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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

Abadie, Alberto - 2021

This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …

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How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the ORBIS Global Database : New Facts and Aggregate Implications

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2015

We construct representative firm-level longitudinal data for twenty-seven European countries using financial statements from the Orbis global database, providing a “how-to” guide on the construction. We validate our dataset by comparing its aggregate coverage to official statistics and...

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The Potato'S Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro

Bordo, Michael D. - 2008

This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...

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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding - 2015

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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The Gatt'S Contribution to Economic Recovery in Post-War Western Europe

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

(GATT) in promoting economic recovery and growth in Europe in the decade after World War II. The formation of the GATT does …

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