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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 …

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Terrorism, key assets, and critical infrastructures : to protect or to rebuild? ; that is the question

Crettez, Bertrand; Deloche, Régis - In: Public choice 144 (2010) 1/2, pp. 105-118

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Decomposing Violence : Crime Cycles in the Twentieth Century in the United States

Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo A. - 2008

I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out permanent from cyclical murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in...

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Homeland security : a case study in risk aversion for public decision-making

Stewart, Mark G.; Ellingwood, Bruce R.; Mueller, John E. - In: International journal of risk assessment and management … 15 (2011) 5/6, pp. 367-386

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Simulating the state-by-state effects of terrorist attacks on three major US ports : applying NIEMO (National Interstate Economic Model)

Park, Jiyoung; Gordon, Peter; Moore, James Elliott; … - In: The economic costs and consequences of terrorism, (pp. 208-234). 2007

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Interpreting historical sequences using economic models : war, secession and tranquility

Hallwood, Paul - 2020

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Interpreting Historical Sequences Using Economic Models : War, Secession and Tranquility

Hallwood, Paul - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Economic Model -- 3. Intra-State Sequencing with Historical Examples -- 4. Drivers of Historical Sequences -- 5. International Sequencing with Historical Examples -- 6. Peacekeeping and Sequencing -- 7. Case Study: Secessionist Motives in the American Civil War -- 8....

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Mediated terrorism : US news and al-Qaeda attacks

Jetter, Michael - 2017

This paper presents an empirical test for the hypothesis that US news coverage of al-Qaeda causes al-Qaeda attacks. To isolate causality, disaster deaths worldwide provide an instrumental variable crowding out al-Qaeda coverage. Studying daily al-Qaeda coverage by CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News, as...

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Terrorism and the media : the effect of US television coverage on Al-Qaeda attacks

Jetter, Michael - 2017

Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation...

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Terrorism and voting behavior: evidence from the United States

Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021

This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of … identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first confirm that the success of terror attacks is plausibly random by showing … terrorism has less of an influence on voters than is usually thought. …

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