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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set
Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017
This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954323
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The Global Trade Slowdown : Cyclical or Structural?
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018
This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses an empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937557
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Who Supports Violent Extremism in Developing Countries? Analysis of Attitudes Based on Value Surveys
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2018
What are the common characteristics among radicalized individuals, willing to justify attacks targeting civilians? Drawing on information on attitudes toward extreme violence and other characteristics of 30,787 individuals from 27 developing countries around the world, and employing a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935858
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? Evidence from Remote Sensing
Do, Quy-Toan - 2017
Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in production in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944258
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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972401
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Are Lives a Substitute for Livelihoods? Terrorism, Security, and U.S. Bilateral Imports
Mirza, Daniel - 2016
What is the impact of terrorism on trade through higher security at the borders? The authors set up a theory which … shows that the impact goes not only from terrorism to trade. Higher trade with a partner might, in turn, increase the … probability of terrorism acts and make security measures more costly for total welfare. To identify the true impact of terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747883
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International Trade, Security, and Transnational Terrorism : Theory and Empirics
Mirza, Daniel - 2016
transnational terrorism. Then they survey the recent economic literature in light of this framework by pointing to the importance in … target countries of terrorism, and (3) taking into account the intertemporal persistence of terrorism between specific pairs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747884
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Dodging Bullets : The Heterogeneous Effect of Political Violence on Greenfield FDI
Witte, Caroline T. - 2017
The relationship between political violence and greenfield foreign direct investment is contingent on the type of violence, characteristics of the investment-receiving sector, and extent to which the investing firm is geographically diversified. This paper presents an analysis with a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966998
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Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967487
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Infrastructure for Growth and Human Development in Pakistan : A Simulation Analysis of Fiscal Policy Options
Kinnunen, Jouko - 2017
This paper explores the use of fiscal policy to accelerate development in Pakistan during the period 2013-2022, with a … final high-growth scenario explores requirements and consequences for Pakistan's economy if, during the period 2013-2022, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974067