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Corporate demand for insurance : an empirical analysis of the US market for catastrophe and non-catastrophe risks

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann; Raschky, Paul A.; Kunreuther, Howard - 2009

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Corporate demand for insurance : an empirical analysis of the US market for catastrophe and non-catastrophe risks

Michel-Kerjan, Erwann; Raschky, Paul A.; Kunreuther, Howard - 2009

This paper tests some existing theories developed over the past 25 years on corporate demand for insurance. Using a unique dataset of 1,809 large U.S. corporations it provides the first empirical analysis that compares corporate demand for standard property insurance and for catastrophe coverage...

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A sense of no future in an uncertain present : altruism and risk-seeking among Syrian refugees in Jordan

El Bialy, Nora; Fraile Aranda, Elisa; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - 2020

An unprecedented number of refugees from Syria has sought refuge in both the Middle East andEurope since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2011. We analyze the level of altruism and risk-seeking among Syrian civil war victims in Jordan. We find systematic variations in their revealed...

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The stock market effects of Islamist versus non-Islamist terror

Jin, Gan; Karim, Md Rafiul; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024

We are the first to analyze the effect of terror on stock markets by terror ideology. Surprisingly, we find that … Islamist terror attacks created significant negative abnormal returns in American and European markets, but the stock market … effects of other terror attacks were almost nil. For our sample of all 124 terrorist attacks in the US and Europe in the …

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The stock market effects of Islamist versus non-Islamist terror

Jin, Gan; Karima, Md Rafiul; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024 - Electronically published: 16.1.2024

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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't": mimicking behaviour of growth-oriented terrorist organizations

Hendel, Ulrich - 2012

This paper examines the interaction between a growth-oriented terrorist organization and an uninformed government based on a two-period signaling game. The terrorists, taking into account the government's counter-terrorism response to first period attacks, gain additional manpower from...

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Military intervention via drone strikes

Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019

in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of all attacks or 2,964 terror deaths. Exploring mechanisms, we …

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Terms-of-trade and counterterrorism externalities

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2017

This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation that exports a manufactured good to and imports a primary product from a developing nation. A terrorist organization targets both nations and reduces its attacks in response to...

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On the production of victory : empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

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Military procurement, industry structure and regional conflict

Dunne, Paul; García-Alonso, María del Carmen; Levine, Paul - 2005

In this paper, we construct a model of market structure in the global arms industry linking concentration, military procurement, international trade and regional conflict. We show how concentration depends on the willingness of producers to import for their military needs and on the relative...

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