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Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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Global Threats and the Domestic Struggle for Power

Garfinkel, Michelle R. - EconWPA - 2003

favor. An increased external threat of terrorism--either an increase in the likelihood of a successful terrorist attack or a … thus lessen the severity of the conflict at home. However, unless the marginal return from guarding against terrorism is …

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Al Qaeda and Jihadist Terrorism in the Light of Contest Theory, Empirical Evidence for the period 2004-2008

Caruso, Raul; Schneider, Friedrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper finds an empirical evidence that al Qaeda behaves as a contest organizer rewarding a prize to candidate extremist groups. Would-be terrorists must then compete with each other to prove their commitment and ability. Hence to maximize their own probability of winning the prize, each...

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The Rise of Capitalism and the Roots of Anti-American Terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …

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Politico_economic Aspects of Combat with Terrorism

Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey - In: Research Paper Series (2005) 82P, pp. 116-116

The paper considers and tests different approaches to analysis of causes of, and incentives to terrorist activities and the media and politicians' opportunist behavior. While the first approach is based on the assumption of a universal deployment of a compromise strategy, the other one is based...

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Comment on Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor (2008): “Are voters sensitive to terrorism? Direct evidence from the Israeli electorate”

Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In “Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate,“ Claude Berrebi and Esteban F. Klor …

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Does Terrorism Work?

Gould, Eric D; Klor, Esteban F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper examines whether terrorism is an effective tool to achieve political goals. By exploiting variation in … response to terror. Hence, terrorism appears to be an effective strategy in terms of shifting the entire Israeli political … landscape to the left. These findings may shed light on the causes underlying the spread of global terrorism in the last few …

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Who is the Enemy?

Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in a common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption

Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019

Empirical evidence on the causes and effects of inequality suggests the existence of a vicious circle of mutually reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach,...

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Theft in Equilibrium

Lasso de la Vega, Casilda - 2020

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