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We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i … citizens of a particular country in a given year. -- causes of terrorism ; poverty and terrorism ; panel estimations ; extreme …
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Terrorism causes enormous costs to society. Since the 9/11 attacks, the “war on terror” has therefore been an important …, terrorist financing involves “reverse” money laundering. This is a consequence of some fundamental differences between terrorism …
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culturally distanced countries in Africa and Asia appear more likely to view using violence for political goals as justified … association of immigrants from Africa and Asia with transnational terror, while the majority religion Islam of the sending country …
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modulate the incidence of terrorism on financial development in Africa. Two terrorism indicators are adopted for this study …This study empirically verifies the effect of terrorism on financial development and how globalisation and governance …, namely, the: number of terrorism incidences and number of terrorism deaths. The methodology involves the pooled data …
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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …
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This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...
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), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …
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Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...
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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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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952616