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Collaborating During Coronavirus : The Impact of Covid-19 on the Nature of Work
DeFilippis, Evan - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826643
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The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941983
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Policy Watch : Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States
Kunreuther, Howard - 2012
This paper examines the role that insurance has played in dealing with terrorism before and after September 11, 2001 …, by focusing on the distinctive challenges associated with terrorism as a catastrophic risk. The Terrorism Risk Insurance … Act of 2002 (TRIA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in November 2002, establishing a national terrorism insurance program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755733
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Assessing, Managing, and Financing Extreme Events : Dealing with Terrorism
Kunreuther, Howard - 2012
This paper discusses new challenges we face with terrorism as a catastrophic risk by focusing on risk assessment, risk … management as well as risk financing issues. The special characteristics of terrorism compared with major natural hazards call … for the development of public-private partnerships, as recognized in November 2002 when the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755813
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Valuing a Homeland Security Policy : Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
Smith, V. Kerry - 2010
This paper reports estimates for the ex ante tradeoffs for three specific homeland security policies that all address a terrorist attack on commercial aircraft with shoulder mounted missiles. Our analysis focuses on the willingness to pay for anti-missile laser jamming countermeasures mounted on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758400
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds : Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A. - 2010
his paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759364
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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
evolved in response to terrorism in Britain. The paper also discusses the reasons why there is strong cooperation among the CT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759635
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759639
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Is Terrorism Eroding Agglomeration Economies in Central Business Districts? Lessons from the Office Real Estate Market in Downtown Chicago
Abadie, Alberto - 2010
Districts can be greatly affected by changes in the perceived level of terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760551
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When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal
Beeson, Patricia E. - 2010
To better understand the potential economic repercussions of a bioterrorist attack, this paper explores the effects of several catastrophic epidemics that struck American cities between 1690 and 1880. The epidemics considered here killed between 10 and 25 percent of the urban population studied....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760597