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We study a model of insurgent learning during a counterinsurgency campaign. We test empirical implications of the model using newly declassified microdata documenting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2014. This period was characterized by substantial US investments...
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What impact will terrorism have on America's cities? Historically, large-scale violence has impacted cities in three … to disperse. Finally, since warfare and terrorism often specifically target means of transportation, violence can …), but more commonly neither terrorism nor wars have significantly altered urban form. As such, across America the effect of …
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Do firms have adequate incentives to invest in anti-terrorism mechanisms? This paper develops a framework for …
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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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political terrorism in the 1970's. The subsequent economic evolution of this 'counterfactual' Basque Country without terrorism … is compared to the actual experience of the Basque Country. We find that, after the outbreak of terrorism, per capita GDP …
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In an interdependent world the risks faced by any one agent depend not only on its choices but also on those of all others. Expectations about others' choices will influence investments in risk-management, and the outcome can be sub-optimal investment all round. We model this as the Nash...
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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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This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We …
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This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
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We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …
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