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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect
Campos, Nauro; Gassebner, Martin - 2009
(the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- Terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824948
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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect
Campos, Nauro; Gassebner, Martin - 2009
(the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908642
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
(the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764240
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
(the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718890
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Terrorism and cabinet duration : an empirical analysis
Gassebner, Martin (contributor);  … - 2007
We examine the relationship between terrorism and cabinet duration. Our data set includes more than 2,400 cabinets in … over 150 countries in the period 1968-2002. We find a small, but significant effect of terrorism on the probability of … government failure. Furthermore, we find that the impact of terrorism depends on the type of attack and is larger in case of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764094
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Political instability and political terror : global evidence on persistence
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2020
We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181789
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from international financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629705
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from in-ternational financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630635
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An Uphill Battle : The Relationship Between Geography and Terrorism
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2020
Fragmentation is associated with more terrorism, given its close relationship with the role of the government and socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853697
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Do IMF and World Bank programs induce government crises? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2008
We examine whether and under which circumstances World Bank projects and IMF programs affect the likelihood of major government crises. Using a sample of more than 90 developing countries over the period 1970-2002, we find that crises are on average more likely as a consequence of Bank and Fund...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003764224