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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror
Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009266761
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Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering
Krieger, Tim - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124091
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Immigration, Integration and Terrorism : Is There a Clash of Cultures?
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2011
We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the international World Values Survey data. We show that, in general, economically, politically and socially non-integrated persons are more likely to accept using violence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186851
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Politicians : be killed or survive
Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791827
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Why Kill Politicians? A Rational Choice Analysis of Political Assassinations
Frey, Bruno S. - 2007
In the course of history a large number of politicians has been assassinated. A rational choice analysis is used to distinguish the expected marginal benefits of killing, and the marginal cost of attacking a politician. The comparative analysis of various equilibria helps us to gain insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050152
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Terrorism: rationality, externalities, and policy
Sandler, Todd; Gaibulloev, Khusrav - In: Journal of public finance and public choice : JPFPC 30 (2012) 1/3, pp. 17-38
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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper
Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014
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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An injury to one is an injury to all : terrorism's spillover effects on bilateral trade
Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017
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/10011694823
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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence
Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009
), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861749
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Suicide attacks and religious cleavages
Filote, Andra; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475337