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The current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries' economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic … established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is apparent only in countries with higher levels of CC; foreign aid dampens … the negative effect of terrorism on FDI only in countries with high levels of CC. The result is mixed when foreign aid is …
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We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The … used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic, unclear, transnational and total number of terrorist attacks. The main … terrorism on FDI. The positive threshold we cannot establish is important for policy makers because it communicates a cut …
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This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption … established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is apparent only in higher levels of CC; foreign aid dampens the negative … effect of terrorism on FDI only in higher levels of CC; when foreign aid is subdivided into its bilateral and multilateral …
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This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic … established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is apparent only in countries with higher levels of CC; foreign aid dampens … the negative effect of terrorism on FDI only in countries with high levels of CC. The result is mixed when foreign aid is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908025
This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption … established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is apparent only in higher levels of CC; foreign aid dampens the negative … effect of terrorism on FDI only in higher levels of CC; when foreign aid is subdivided into its bilateral and multilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408857
The chapter surveys the empirical literature concerning the measurement of terrorism, effectiveness of counterterrorism … policies, the economic consequences of terrorism, and the economic causes of terrorism. In Section 2, terrorist incidents are … grouped according to incident type, victim, and location. It is shown that terrorism began a steady decline in all regions …
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Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and … focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984-2008. Our findings suggest that all types of terrorism depress FDI. In addition …, aid mitigates the negative effects of total and domestic terrorism on FDI; however, this is not the case for transnational …
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This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
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Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
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