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Spatial Spill-Overs From Terrorism on Tourism : Western Victims in Islamic Destination Countries

Neumayer, Eric - 2018

We analyze spatial spillover effects in international tourism as a consequence of transnational terrorist attacks. Specifically, we hypothesize that attacks executed in Islamic countries on citizens from Western countries will generate spatial spillovers of three kinds. Firstly, tourism from the...

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Provoking a civil war

Rocco, Lorenzo; Ballo, Zié - In: Public Choice 134 (2008) 3, pp. 347-366

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Why fight secession? Evidence of economic motivations from the American Civil War

Liscow, Zachary - In: Public Choice 153 (2012) 1, pp. 37-54

American Civil War. It tests a theoretical prediction that economic motivations were important, using county-level presidential …

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Self-enforcing norms and efficient non-cooperative collective action in the provision of public goods

Konrad, Kai; Leininger, Wolfgang - In: Public Choice 146 (2011) 3, pp. 501-520

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A sheriff, two bullets and three problems

Felgenhauer, Mike - In: Public Choice 130 (2007) 3, pp. 347-362

military capacity constraint, which is not exhausted after just one war. Two main effects are at work. If the strong country is … more aggressive compared to a world without a constraint. It may be that an “axis of evil” does not exist before a war … occurs, but is implicitly formed even by moderate countries after the first war was waged. A point of interest is whether the …

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Are suicide terrorists different from ‘regular militants’?

Sabri, Amir; Schulze, Günther G. - In: Public Choice 188 (2020) 1-2, pp. 155-181

We analyze the differences in the socioeconomic profiles between suicide terrorists and ‘regular’ militants using a dataset of 1596 militants (including 209 suicide terrorists) from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). We find that suicide terrorists are better educated, younger, less...

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Is constitutionalized media freedom only window dressing? Evidence from terrorist attacks

Bjørnskov, Christian; Voigt, Stefan - In: Public Choice 187 (2020) 3-4, pp. 321-348

Media freedom is often curtailed in the wake of terrorist attacks. In this contribution, we ask whether constitutional provisions that are intended—directly or indirectly—to protect media freedom affect the degree to which press freedom is curtailed after terrorist incidents. We find that...

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Earthquakes, hurricanes, and terrorism: do natural disasters incite terror?

Berrebi, Claude; Ostwald, Jordan - In: Public Choice 149 (2011) 3, pp. 383-403

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The illicit drug trade, counternarcotics strategies and terrorism

Piazza, James - In: Public Choice 149 (2011) 3, pp. 297-314

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Electoral terms and terrorism

Hodler, Roland; Rohner, Dominic - In: Public Choice 150 (2012) 1, pp. 181-193

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