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We examine the effect of class cleavages on terrorist activity by anarchist and leftist terrorist groups in 99 American, Asian and European countries over the 1860-1950 period. We find that higher levels of political exclusion of the poor, our main measure of class conflict, were associated with...
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This study empirically verifies the effect of terrorism on financial development and how globalisation and governance … modulate the incidence of terrorism on financial development in Africa. Two terrorism indicators are adopted for this study …, namely, the: number of terrorism incidences and number of terrorism deaths. The methodology involves the pooled data …
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In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …
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Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show … terror per capita. A larger share of Muslims in society is, if anything, associated with less terrorism. Similar conclusions …
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's level of CT is systematically related to terrorism. We introduce a simple theoretical framework, suggesting that terrorism … countries from 1970-2014, we find evidence for these predictions: Terrorism peaks at intermediate ranges of CT and corresponding …
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citizens. Even though there is evidence that a terror attack can affect people all over the world, up to now no study has …
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datasets, for both armed conflicts and for global terrorism as a whole, exhibit extraordinary regularities that transcend …
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This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and … open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …
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Since the end of the Cold War, the world remains a dangerous place with new threats: regional conflicts, transnational …, terrorism, arms races, and military manpower); and chapters on topics that reflects the influence of globalization and new … threats (e.g., terrorism, trade and peace, and arms industries). Third, the chapter provides a brief overview of each chapter …
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Building on previous literature, we assess when foreign aid is effective in fighting terrorism using quantile … used whereas terrorism includes: domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorism dynamics. We consistently establish … that foreign aid (bilateral, multilateral and total) is effective at fighting terrorism exclusively in countries where …
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