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María, Restrepo Elvira; Moreno, Álvaro José - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2007)

La relación entre la percepción de seguridad y el crimen no siempre está atada a la victimización ni al riesgo real de ser objeto de un acto delictivo, sino también al miedo de ser víctima de un delito. A partir de una encuesta orientada a la población de la Universidad de los Andes, se...

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BOGOTÁ: ¿MÁS CRIMEN? ¿MÁS MIEDO?

Restrepo, Elvira María; Moreno, Álvaro José; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2006

La relación entre la percepción de seguridad y el crimen no siempre está atada a la victimización ni al el riesgo real de ser objeto de un acto delictivo, sino también al miedo de ser víctima de un delito. A partir de una encuesta orientada a la población de la Universidad de los Andes se...

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The Economic Consequences of Terrorism

Lenain, Patrick; Bonturi, Marcos; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

The unprecedented 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States caused massive casualties and damage, and ushered in an era of greater uncertainty. While a prompt and vigorous policy response helped limit the immediate economic impact of the aggression, the heightened terrorist threat...

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On the Production of Homeland Security Under True Uncertainty

Stranlund, John K.; Field, Barry C. - 2006

Homeland security against possible terrorist attacks involves making decisions under true uncertainty. Not only are we ignorant of the form, place, and time of potential terrorist attacks, we are also largely ignorant of the likelihood of these attacks. In this paper, we conceptualize homeland...

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Averting Catastrophes: The Strange Economics of Scylla and Charybdis

Pindyck, Robert S.; Martin, Ian W.R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

How should we evaluate public policies or projects to avert, or reduce the likelihood of, a catastrophic event? Examples might include inspection and surveillance programs to avert nuclear terrorism, investments in vaccine technologies to help respond to a "mega-virus," or the construction of...

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MODELING RISK OF INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY RELATIONS

SVESHNIKOV, Sergey; BOCHARNIKOV, Victor - In: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences 4 (2009) 4(10)_Winter2009, pp. 558-569

In this article we consider the modeling principles and model for estimation of tension of international relations of a country with other countries. We use the tension of international relations as partial indicator of international political-economical country-risk. The model bases on...

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Où va l'économie mondiale ? : scénarios et mesures d'urgence

Pastré, Olivier; Chevalier, Jean-Marie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003

Le triomphe du marché marque-t-il la fin de l'histoire ou bien va-t-on vers le choc des civilisations ? Ces enjeux fondamentaux ont des répercussions directes sur l'économie, selon trois axes : le mode de fonctionnement global de l'économie mondiale, la transformation de certains secteurs,...

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The Economics of Climate Change

Stern, Nicholas - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 1-37

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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?

Fischer, Justina - 2011

We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the … irrelevant to terror support. As robustness test we relate individual attitude to real-life behavior: using country panels of … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

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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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