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Fear of Ruin
Foncel, Jérôme; Treich, Nicolas - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 31 (2005) 3, pp. 289-300
This paper offers interpretations and applications of the “fear of ruin” coefficient (Aumann and Kurz, 1977, Econometrica). This coefficient is useful for analyzing the behavior of expected utility maximizers when they face binary lotteries with the same worse outcome. Comparative statics...
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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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Terror and the Costs of Crime
Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - 2009
going out for leisure activities. Our analysis exploits a panel of 120 fatal terror attacks and all reported crimes for 17 …-specific time trends, we show that terror attacks reduce property crimes such as burglary, auto-theft, and thefts-from-cars. Terror … police presence after a terror attack. A higher level of policing is likely to catch more people trespassing, and at the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335382
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; van Vuuren, Aico - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
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The Effects of Terrorist Activities on Foreign Direct Investment: Nonlinear Evidence from Turkey
Omay, Tolga; Araz-Takay, Bahar; Eruygur, Ayşegül; … - In: Review of Economics 64 (2013) 2, pp. 139-158
Abstract In this study, we examine the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and terrorist incidents that took place in Turkey during the period 1991:12 to 2003:12. By doing so we contribute to the literature by allowing for a possible nonlinear relationship between terrorism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014619289
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Terror and the costs of crime
Gould, Eric D.; Stecklov, Guy - 2009
going out for leisure activities. Our analysis exploits a panel of 120 fatal terror attacks and all reported crimes for 17 …-specific time trends, we show that terror attacks reduce property crimes such as burglary, auto-theft, and thefts-from-cars. Terror … police presence after a terror attack. A higher level of policing is likely to catch more people trespassing, and at the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269432
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Terrorism and cabinet duration: An empirical analysis
Gassebner, Martin; Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2007
severe attacks. Marginal effect calculations show that the impact of terror on cabinet duration is larger than the impact of … economic variables such as economic growth, but less than the impact of a civil war or a government crisis. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277733
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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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Interconnections: A systems history of science, technology, leisure, and fear
Phillips, Fred - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 7 (2021) 1, pp. 1-14
It is well known that technological change causes social change, and vice versa. Using system and historical perspectives, this article examines that truth at a finer level of specificity, namely, that social perceptions of interconnectedness influence the progress of science and technology, and...
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The stock market effects of Islamist versus non-Islamist terror
Jin, Gan; Karima, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483316