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Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade normalization. These developments have been concentrated around three periods: the late-1990s, mid-2000s, and early-2010s. Are these waves of trade-related activity reflected in...
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Using a new data set that captures the share of reporting on terrorism, we explore the nexus between terrorist attacks … and the news. It turns out that terrorism mainly influences news reports through the number of incidents. Regarding the … reverse causality, we provide evidence that the share of the news devoted to terrorism Granger-causes further terrorist …
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Using a new data set that captures the share of reporting on terrorism, we explore the nexus between terrorist attacks … and the news. It turns out that terrorism mainly influences news reports through the number of incidents. Regarding the … reverse causality, we provide evidence that the share of the news devoted to terrorism Granger-causes further terrorist …
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This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
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We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are …. Based on these insights, we estimate a simple structural model where heterogeneous households experiencing terrorism form …
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What motivates kidnapping decisions by rebel groups? This paper studies news coverage of a proposed prisoner exchange program (the Acuerdo Humanitario; AH) in connection with FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnappings in the early 2000s. We propose that AH News nourished the...
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