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How Much Does Violence Tax Trade?
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2021
We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319193
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How much does violence tax trade?
Blomberg, Stephen Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004
We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002246167
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How much does violence tax trade?
Blomberg, Stephen Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004
We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449640
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021
with alternative forms of collective violence. Our analysis is based on a rich unbalanced panel data set with annual … observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 2000, which brings together information from the Penn World Table dataset, the ITERATE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319409
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How much does violence tax trade?
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004
We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261218
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2004
with alternative forms of collective violence. Our analysis is based on a rich unbalanced panel data set with annual … observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 2000, which brings together information from the Penn World Table dataset, the ITERATE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276090
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The Lexus and the Olive Branch : Globalization, Democratization and Terrorism
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2008
This paper provides an original study into how democratization and globalization influence terrorism - examining the motives of terrorists and how democratic institutions and international integration influence non-state economic actors. We employ a gravity model to investigate the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027063
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On the empirics of violence, inequality, and income
Riveros Gavilanes, John Michael - In: Journal of economics & management 45 (2023) 1, pp. 102-136
Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income … data used for analysis are sourced from the World Bank, the SWIID inequality database, and the Penn World Table. The final …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325276
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688854
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How severely does violence deter international investment?
Blomberg, S. Brock; Mody, Ashoka - 2005
together two recent streams of literature to highlight the role of political risk. We find that violence in the form of … terrorism, revolutions, and wars is harmful to international investment. Violence in a source country encourages investment away … from the parent to a safer host. Host country violence hurts investment, mainly in developing countries. Developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266429