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The enemy you can’t see: An investigation of the disruption of dark networks

McBride, Michael; Hewitt, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 32-50

We examine the optimal disruption of dark (covert and illegal) networks. Of central importance is that an interventionist will generally have incomplete information about the dark network's architecture. We derive the optimal disruption strategy in a stylized model of dark network intervention...

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Brutality of Jihadist terrorism. A contest theory perspective and empirical evidence in the period 2002–2010

Caruso, Raul; Schneider, Friedrich - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 5, pp. 685-696

We interpret the emergence of Jihadist terrorism in the light of contest theory. Al Qaeda may be portrayed as a contest … that Al Qaeda-style terrorism is associated with poverty and underprivileged socio-economic conditions. …

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The London Bombings and Racial Prejudice: Evidence from Housing and Labour Markets

Ratcliffe, Anita; Scholder, Stephanie von Hinke Kessler - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of the London bombings on attitudes towards ethnic minorities, examining outcomes in housing and labour markets across London boroughs. We use a difference-in-differences approach, specifying `treated' boroughs as those with the highest concentration of Asian...

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Macroeconomic consequences of terrorism in Pakistan

Malik, Zahra; Zaman, Khalid - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 6, pp. 1103-1123

The objective of the study examines the macroeconomic consequences of terrorism in Pakistan. The study evaluates the … short- and long-run relationship between terrorism and economic factors over a period of 1975–2011. Both objectives have … political instability cause the terrorism incidence in Pakistan. However, income inequality, unemployment and trade openness …

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European Markets’ Reactions to Exogenous Shocks: A High Frequency Data Analysis of the 2005 London Bombings

Kollias, Christos; Papadamou, Stephanos; Siriopoulos, Costas - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 1 (2013) 4, pp. 154-167

Terrorist incidents exert a negative, albeit usually short-lived, impact on markets and equity returns. Given the integration of global financial markets, mega-terrorist events also have a high contagion potential with their shock waves being transmitted across countries and markets. This paper...

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World Politics and Support for Terrorism within Muslim Populations: Evidence from Muslim Countries and Western Europe

Zhirkov, Kirill; Verkuyte, Maykel Verkuyten; Weesie, Jeroen - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

World Politics and Support for Terrorism within Muslim Populations: Evidence from Muslim Countries and Western Europe … terrorism among Muslims is present but the percentage of radicals is quite low. In both samples, support for terrorism is … dominance of the West is related to more support for terrorism among Muslims in Europe. In the Muslim countries, blaming the …

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Safety-first portfolio optimization after September 11, 2001

Haque, Mahfuzul; Varela, Oscar - In: Journal of Risk Finance 11 (2010) January, pp. 20-61

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply safety-first portfolio principles in an environment where financial risk exists because of the probability of terrorist attacks, where the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 (911) are the focal point of the analysis....

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The effects of terrorism and war on the oil price–stock index relationship

Kollias, Christos; Kyrtsou, Catherine; Papadamou, Stephanos - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 743-752

The effects war and terrorism have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of four major stock markets … findings indicate that the covariance between stock and oil returns is affected by war. A tentative explanation is that the two …

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An analysis of a causal relationship between economic growth and terrorism in Pakistan

Shahbaz, Muhammad; Shabbir, Muhammad Shahbaz; Malik, … - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 21-29

The present study investigates the causal relationship between terrorism and economic growth in Pakistan by … testing approach has been applied to cointegration to examine the long-run relationship between terrorism and economic growth …. The VECM Granger causality approach is used to test the direction of causality between terrorism and economic growth. Our …

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GPU accelerated MCMC for modeling terrorist activity

White, Gentry; Porter, Michael D. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 71 (2014) C, pp. 643-651

Global Terrorism Database to model terrorist activity in Colombia from 2000 through 2010 and a likelihood based on the …

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