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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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Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...
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The current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries' economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …
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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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This paper constructs a model of trade consequences of terrorism, where firms in trading nations face different costs … arising from domestic and transnational terrorism. Using dyadic dataset in a gravity model, we test terrorism’s effects on … terrorism has little or no influence on trade of primary products, terrorism reduces trade of manufactured goods. This novel …
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controls. Oil, illegal ‘taxation', extorting and smuggling from passports to slaves, are already known as terrorism financing … offer ‘true Muslims freedom from the satanic financial system'. The ‘defeat and degrade' strategy of the rest of the world …
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Fragmentation is associated with more terrorism, given its close relationship with the role of the government and socioeconomic …
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), terrorism, and external conflicts, including military spending. There are a number of key theoretical concerns on what counts as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316344
The purpose of this paper is to explore the economic theoretical foundations of the idea that rational terrorist organisations deliberately randomise their attacks (by type, timing, location and targets) to generate uncertainty and intimidation. A choice theoretic framework is applied to the...
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