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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism : Evidence from House Demolitions
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We link original longitudinal micro-level data on houses demolished by the Israeli Defense Forces with data on the universe of suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting...
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A. - 2010
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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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local … level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half … indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews …
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The Political Economy of Hatred
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
What determines the intensity and objects of hatred? Hatred forms when people believe that out-groups are responsible for past and future crimes, but the reality of past crimes has little to do with the level of hatred. Instead, hatred is the result of an equilibrium where politicians supply...
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...
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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars : Evidence from the European Football Market
Kleven, Henrik - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …
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Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis
Campello, Murillo - 2010
This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : Us vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …
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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....
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In the Eye of a Storm : Manhattan's Money Center Banks During the International Financial Crisis of 1931
Richardson, Gary - 2011
In the summer of 1931, a financial crisis began in Austria, spread to Germany, forced Britain to abandon the gold standard, crossed the Atlantic, and afflicted financial institutions in the United States. This article describes how banks in New York City, the central money market of the United...
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