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aforementioned regions' poor performance in the tourism industry is due to growing terrorism in the region. Our results indicate that … terrorism plays a deterrent role in the tourist's decision-making process for traveling to those countries. By using both the … a significant negative impact of terrorism on tourism. …
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international terrorism at the top of the agenda of European policy-makers. This paper analyzes the costs of terrorism in the … European Union from both a theoretical and empirical perspective in order to evaluate counter-terrorism policies by comparing … predispositions typically result in a biased perception of the risk of terrorism leading to too high a demand for counter-terrorism …
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This chapter surveys the past applications of game theory to the study of terrorism. By capturing the strategic … interplay between terrorists and targeted governments, game theory is an appropriate methodology for investigating terrorism and … indicates novel directions for applying game theory to terrorism-related issues (e.g., cooperative collectives to strengthen …
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This study revisits the growth-finance nexus using a new econometric approach and unique data set. In particular by employing the smooth transition framework and annual time series data for Brazil from 1890 to 2003, we attempt to address on the one side, what is the relationship between...
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We assess whether and how violence and political instability affect trade between developed and developing countries considering the special case of EU imports of Kenyan roses after the 2007/08 post-election violence and political instability in Kenya. Using the Rotterdam model to estimate EU...
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In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
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We analyze the determinants of the origin of domestic and international terrorism in a large panel data set of 159 … thus contradicts the notion that terrorism is rooted in economic deprivation or that strongly autocratic regimes breed more … terrorists. Rather we show that weak or failing states are a hotbed for terrorism. Lastly, we show that domestic terror is …
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