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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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The Political Economy of Hatred
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002
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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Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance : Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany
Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...
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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Voigtlaender, 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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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data
Klapper, Leora - 2004
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523101
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Consumer City
Glaeser, Ed - 2000
Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and...
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Labor Markets in Professional Sports
Rosen, Sherwin - 2000
contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …
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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999
over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471458
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What Determines Firm Size?
Kumar, Krishna B. - 1999
Motivated by theories of the firm, which we classify as technological' or organizational,' we analyze the determinants of firm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We find that, on average, firms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry...
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