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A pandemic of violence? : the impact of COVID-19 on conflict
Polo, Sara M. T. - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 26 (2020) 3, pp. 1-13
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405881
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Threat Perceptions in Europe: Domestic Terrorism and International Crime
Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2009
group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335368
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On the Interaction between Fear and Hatred
Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2009
This paper models conflictual interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident immigrant minority group, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident behaviour by solving the collective action...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335376
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Linguistic Polarization and Conflict in the Basque Country
Gardeazabal, Javier - 2011
This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the … roots underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We show that at the municipality level, linguistic polarization reduces … the level of conflict. This finding is robust to various ways of measuring linguistic and ideological polarization and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335422
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Aid, terrorism, and foreign direct investment: Empirical insight conditioned on corruption control
Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of foreign aid in the terrorism-FDI nexus while considering the extent of domestic corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112190
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How severely does violence deter international investment?
Blomberg, S. Brock; Mody, Ashoka - 2005
The relevance of political risk to international trade and investment remains a topic of continuing interest. However, summary measures of political risk, including country corruption, do not give consistent results. In this paper, we bring together two recent streams of literature to highlight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266429
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2004
dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276090
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Internal Violence Index: a composite and quantitative measure of internal violence and crime in developing countries
Feindouno, Sosso; Goujon, Michaël; Wagner, Laurent - 2016
Nous avons créé un nouvel indice, l'Indice de Violence Interne (IVI), dont le but est de comparer le niveau de violence dans 130 pays en développement. L'IVI est un indice composite mesurant la violence interne sous différentes formes: conflits armés internes, criminalité, terrorisme et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000806
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Terrorismus und internationaler Handel: Probleme und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen
Nitsch, Volker - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 41-50
In diesem kurzen Aufsatz werden die Kosten des Terrors für den internationalen Handel diskutiert. Unstrittig ist, dass Unsicherheit und Gewalt die wirtschaftliche Aktivität lähmen können. Ob auch terroristische Aktionen, die häufig isolierte Ereignisse darstellen, selten auf direkte...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377905
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Blood and Ink! The Common-Interest-Game Between Terrorists and the Media
Frey, Bruno S.; Rohner, Dominic - 2006
It has often been pointed out in the literature that a symbiotic relationship exists between terrorist groups and the media. As yet, however, no formal model has been built based on this issue and only very little empirical research has been done in this field. The present contribution builds a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168238