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This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
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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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We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment …, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism …
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one empirical framework. We investigate the effects of Islamist terrorism on citizens' evaluation of the national … terrorism. …
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This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …
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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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Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this … evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than on other forms …
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), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …
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