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An analytical history of terrorism, 1945–2000

Shughart, William - In: Public Choice 128 (2006) 1, pp. 7-39

This paper traces the history of modern terrorism from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the twenty …-first century. It divides that history into three stylized waves: terrorism in the service of national liberation and ethnic … separatism, left-wing terrorism, and Islamist terrorism. Adopting a constitutional political economy perspective, the paper …

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002

development of fundamentalist groups. In this paper we develop a theory of fundamentalism and terrorism under which leaders …Fundamentalist organizations and the terrorists they spawn do not arise of a vacuum. Combating terrorism requires …

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Economic and security consequences of supreme values

Hillman, Arye - In: Public Choice 131 (2007) 3, pp. 259-280

Islamic societies have in contemporary times lagged Western societies in income, growth, and human-development indicators. The supreme values of radical Islam further de-prioritize economic achievement and impose self-deprivation on own populations. This paper investigates the reasons for...

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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2014

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

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CONSECRATION OF THE CONCEPT OF “CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY” AND “SUPREME VALUES” PROVIDED IN ARTICLE 1 OF THE ROMANIAN CONSTITUTION REPUBLISHED AND ALSO THROUGH THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF ROMANIA

VALEA, Daniela Cristina - In: Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant … 58 (2014) September, pp. 28-38

Any human society needs an organizational framework for running the activity. In the broadest sense, this framework is the state. The revised Constitution of Romania practically sets a few coordinates for this framework respectively “the constitutional democracy” (Romania being characterized...

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The Impact of Heterogeneous Trading Rules on the Limit Order Book and Order Flows

Chiarella, C.; Iori, G.; Perello, J. - Department of Economics, City University - 2008

In this paper we develop a model of an order-driven market where traders set bids and asks and post market or limit orders according to exogenously fixed rules. Agents are assumed to have three components to the expectation of future asset returns, namely-fundamentalist, chartist and noise...

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THE DILEMMA OF DEMAND SIDE POLICIES VERSUS SUPPLY SIDE POLICIES FOR RELAUNCHING CAPITALIST ECONOMIES

Prisecaru, Petre - In: Global Economic Observer 2 (2014) 2, pp. 28-36

The first important economic recession in this century started in USA with the burst of real estate bubble followed by the bankruptcy of some investment and commercial banks and the collapse of capital market. The financial-banking crisis spilt over the world economy and caused the second...

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Elective Identities, (Culture, Identization and Integration)

Magala, Magala, S.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

globalization instead of demonstrating its failure. The rise of religious fundamentalism and the emergence of network types of …

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Time-varying beta: a boundedly rational equilibrium approach

Chiarella, Carl; Dieci, Roberto; He, Xue-Zhong - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 3, pp. 609-639

The conditional CAPM with time-varying betas has been widely used to explain the cross-section of asset returns. However, most of the literature on time-varying beta is motivated by econometric estimation using various latent risk factors rather than explicit modelling of the stochastic...

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