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Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
Benmelech, Efraim; Klor, Esteban F.; Berrebi, Claude - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that poverty and poor economic conditions may affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533381
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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth
Nishida, Mitsukuni; Petrin, Amil; Polanec, Sašo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
-level data from Chile, Colombia, and Slovenia, and we find for the first two that BHC indices report weak or negative growth from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969274
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The Euro and Firm Restructuring
Schivardi, Fabiano; Zizza, Roberta; Bugamelli, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected member states' productive structures, distinguishing between within and across sector reallocation. We find evidence that the euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774447
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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
MAIRESSE, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert; Kocoglu, Yusuf - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614669
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Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Both human capital and nonhuman capital play an important role in economic growth. Estimates of nonhuman (physical) capital exist for many more countries than for human capital. Recently there has been a significant increase in the number of countries for which estimates of human capital exist,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871142
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Bases, Bullets and Ballots: the Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia
Dube, Oeindrila; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
diverted to these very groups. We examine how U.S. military aid affects political violence in Colombia. We exploit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969300
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The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution was Financed with Paper Money--Initial Design and Ideal Performance
Grubb, Farley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to convince the reader that the Continental dollar was a zero-interest bearer bond and not a fiat currency--thereby overturning 230 years of scholarly interpretation; to show that the public and leading Americans knew and acted on this fact, and to illustrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950679
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Predation, Taxation, Investment and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Kapstein, Ethan; Troland, Erin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper explores the relationship between investment and political violence through several possible mechanisms …. Investment as a predictor of future violence implies that low private sector investment today provides a robust indicator of high … violence tomorrow. "Rent-capture" or predation asserts that investment increases violence by motivating extortion by insurgents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951034
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Predation, Taxation, Investment, and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
Berman, Eli; Felter, Joseph; Kapstein, Ethan; Troland, Erin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The literature relating economic activity to political violence posits greedy rebels (Collier, 2000) but not greedy … motivates rebel violence? Panel data on political violence in the Philippines distinguish government from rebel attacks, which ….e., extortionary violence by rebels in response to investment) to the interplay of government, rebels and civilians, generating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213894
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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans
Edwards, Ryan D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Recent military engagements in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) raise questions about the effects on service members of overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section...
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