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Illicit Activity and Money Laundering from an Economic Growth Perspective : A Model and an Application to Colombia

Villa, Edgar - 2017

This paper contributes to the economic analysis of illicit activities and money laundering. First, it presents a theoretical model of long-run growth that explicitly considers illicit workers, activities, and income, alongside a licit private sector and a functioning government. Second, it...

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Gender and Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa : Are Women Disadvantaged?

Aterido, Reyes - 2017

This paper assesses whether there is a gender gap in the use of financial services by businesses and individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors do not find evidence of gender discrimination or lower inherent demand for financial services by enterprises with female ownership participation or...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Greco-Roman Lessons for Public Debt Management and Debt Market Development

Campanaro, Alessandra - 2017

Greece and Italy initiated efforts to improve public debt management and develop their domestic debt markets …

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