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We use the Hsiao-Granger method to test for growth-terrorism causality for seven Western European countries. In … bivariate settings, the impact of economic performance on domestic terrorism is very strong. In trivariate settings, the impact … of performance on terrorism diminishes. Here, we find that economic performance leads terrorist violence in robust ways …
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We investigate the effect of rising temperatures on economic development, using sub-national data for approximately 1,500 sub-national regions in 81 countries from the 1950s to the 2010s. Accounting for region- and time-fixed factors by means of a two-way fixed effects panel approach, we find no...
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We examine the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism, differentiating between level- and rate …-peace literature - coincide with less anti-American terrorism, while the marketization process has inflammatory effects on anti …-American terrorism. These findings are further corroborated by system-level time-series evidence. We argue that a higher level of market …
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We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide …), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we … terrorism to voice dissent and achieve a redistribution of wealth. Furthermore, we provide evidence of an indirect effect of …
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This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...
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This contribution examines the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It differentiates between level …-peace literature coincide with less anti-American terrorism, it also suggests that the process of marketization has inflammatory … effects on anti-American terrorism. Using panel data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution indeed finds …
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