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Camera surveillance as a measure of counterterrorism?

Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael - 2010

Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this … evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than on other forms …

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Characteristics of terrorism

Pittel, Karen; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2009

terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …

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Sun, sand and September 11 : a model of tourism demand for the Maldives

Riza, Yusuf; King, Alan - In: International review of applied economics 24 (2010) 2, pp. 223-238

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Terrorism, armed conflict and foreign aid

Lis, Piotr - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 20 (2014) 4, pp. 655-667

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The cross-border impact of political violence

Al-Ississ, Mohamad - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 21 (2015) 2, pp. 239-272

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Terrorism and political self-placement in European Union countries

Economou, Athina; Kollias, Chrēstos - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 21 (2015) 2, pp. 217-238

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The role of insurance in reducing losses from extreme events : the need for public-private partnerships

Kunreuther, Howard - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 40 (2015) 4, pp. 741-762

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Does income inequality lead to terrorism? : evidence from the post-9/11 era

Krieger, Tim; Meierreiks, Daniel - 2015

We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002 … of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly accounted for by means of an instrumental-variable approach, higher levels of … terrorism is consistent with relative deprivation theory which argues that conflict results from frustration over the actual …

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Weapons of choice

Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …

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Guns and butter? : fighting violence with the promise of development

Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V. - 2015

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest...

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