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You failed! Government satisfaction and party preferences facing Islamist terrorism
Nowak, Anna - 2018
one empirical framework. We investigate the effects of Islamist terrorism on citizens' evaluation of the national … terrorism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947617
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261991
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An experimental investigation of Colonel Blotto games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Dan; Sheremeta, Roman M. - 2009
This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions. In the auction treatment, where winning a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306996
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Military Intervention via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006018
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Global tourism and waves of terror: Perspectives from military expenditure
Asongu, Simplice; Acha-Anyi, Paul N. - 2019
terrorism externalities on tourism. The geographical and temporal scopes are 163 countries and the period 2010-2015. The … empirical evidence is based on negative binomial regressions. Terrorism externalities are measured in terms of terror … measurements of terrorism. Homicides and violent demonstrations reduce tourists' arrivals whereas the rate of incarceration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112230
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Religiosity and Terrorism: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2018
This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932063
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The economic consequences of terrorism for the European Union
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2019
international terrorism at the top of the agenda of European policy-makers. This paper analyzes the costs of terrorism in the … European Union from both a theoretical and empirical perspective in order to evaluate counter-terrorism policies by comparing … predispositions typically result in a biased perception of the risk of terrorism leading to too high a demand for counter-terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960915
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The cycle of violence? An empirical analysis of fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Jaeger, David A.; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2005
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or Al-Aqsa) Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276241
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Armed Groups in Conflict: Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269442
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Impact of terrorist incidents on tourism in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia: A dynamic heterogeneous panel approach
Gok, Ugur; Nwaka, Ikechukwu - 2019
aforementioned regions' poor performance in the tourism industry is due to growing terrorism in the region. Our results indicate that … terrorism plays a deterrent role in the tourist's decision-making process for traveling to those countries. By using both the … a significant negative impact of terrorism on tourism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389256