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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2008
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/10012464918
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Policy Watch : Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States
Kunreuther, Howard - 2004
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/10012467819
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Corporate Demand for Insurance : New Evidence from the U.S. Terrorism and Property Markets
Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459129
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Corporate Demand for Insurance : An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks
Michel-Kerjan, Erwann - 2011
empirical analysis of firm behavior that compares corporate demand for property and catastrophe insurance (here, terrorism). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461255
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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same period, terror attacks have increased. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we examine the effects of terror attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510541
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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020
We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479348
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How Do NYPD Officers Respond to Terror Threats?
Lehrer, Steven F. - 2019
cannot rule out that it constitutes efficient policing given important differences between deterrence of terrorism versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480381
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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences
McBride, Michael - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462021
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462164
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462182