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Floods, terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic : how the (de)centralization of power affects the rally around the flag
Lago, Ignacio; Blais, André - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500650
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How much does violence tax trade?
Blomberg, Stephen Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004
of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449640
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Tourism stocks in times of crises : an econometric investigation of non-macro factors
Zopiatis, Anastasios; Savva, Christos S.; Lambertides, … - 2016
Following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the European media emphatically pronounced that billions of euros were wiped from tourism related stocks. This comes at a troublesome time for the tourism industry, in the midst of a global financial crisis, and the unpredictable rise of radical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566387
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Armed groups in conflict : competition and political violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin; Schaudt, Paul; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231521
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The relationship between female labor force participation and violent conflicts in South Asia
Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys; Morales, Matias - 2020
the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to estimate the relationship between terrorist attacks and female labor supply. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169437
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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and … open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493846
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David versus Goliath: fundamental patterns and predictions in modern wars and terrorist campaigns
Spagat, Michael; Johnson, Neil F.; Weezel, Stijn van - 2017
datasets, for both armed conflicts and for global terrorism as a whole, exhibit extraordinary regularities that transcend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736923
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The violent legacy of fascism : neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969-88
Costalli, Stefano; Guariso, Daniele; Justino, Patricia; … - 2023
We still have limited knowledge about the long-term effects of fascism on European democracies. European countries experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during fascism? We study whether and how the Italian fascist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234455
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Cash and conflict : large-scale experimental evidence from Niger
Premand, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic - 2023
Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also trigger appropriation or looting of cash or assets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549059