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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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This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...
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empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We …
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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 of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...
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Most interpretations of prevalent counterinsurgency theory imply that increasing government services will reduce rebel violence. Empirically, however, development programs and economic activity sometimes yield increased violence. Using new panel data on development spending in Iraq, we show that...
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Since the passage of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, corporate terrorism insurance is sold as a separate … and terrorism insurance. Using a unique dataset of insurance policies purchased by large U.S. firms, combined with … to obtain consistent estimates of premium elasticity of corporate demand for property and terrorism coverage. Our …
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terrorism on economics and psychology is difficult because institutions also change in response to terrorist attacks. This paper … exposed to the attacks. I find that terrorism leads to declines in trust, subjective well-being, and the importance of … creativity and freedom. However, at the macro-level, terrorism leads to increases in economic output and household income. These …
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