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Terrorism and political self-placement in European Union countries

Economou, Athina; Kollias, Chrēstos - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 21 (2015) 2, pp. 217-238

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The role of insurance in reducing losses from extreme events : the need for public-private partnerships

Kunreuther, Howard - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 40 (2015) 4, pp. 741-762

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Does income inequality lead to terrorism? : evidence from the post-9/11 era

Krieger, Tim; Meierreiks, Daniel - 2015

We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002 … of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly accounted for by means of an instrumental-variable approach, higher levels of … terrorism is consistent with relative deprivation theory which argues that conflict results from frustration over the actual …

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Weapons of choice

Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015

goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …

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Guns and butter? : fighting violence with the promise of development

Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V. - 2015

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest...

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A mathematical analysis of domestic terrorist activity in the years of lead in Italy

Marcovina, Marco; Pellero, Bruno - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 21 (2015) 3, pp. 351-389

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Does a cutback in external funding reduce incidence of foreign sponsored terrorism?

Parai, Amar K. - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 16/18, pp. 1465-1468

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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel : effects of religiosity , ethnicity, and war

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Romanov, Dimiṭri; … - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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Armed conflict, terrorism, and the allocation of foreign aid

Lis, Piotr - In: The Economics of peace and security journal : Eps journal 8 (2013) 1, pp. 12-17

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Modeling credible retaliation threats in deterring the smuggling of nuclear weapons using partial inspection : a three-stage game

Shan, Xiaojun; Zhuang, Jun - In: Decision analysis : a journal of the Institute for … 11 (2014) 1, pp. 43-62

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