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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Brodeur, Abel - 2015

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local … randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the economic impacts of terrorism. The findings suggest that …

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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Europe

Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - 2020

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...

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Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States

Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021

This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of … identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first confirm that the success of terror attacks is plausibly random by showing … terrorism has less of an influence on voters than is usually thought. …

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Who Is the Enemy?

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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A constitutional theory of the family

Cigno, Alessandro - 2005

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire’s unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict...

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A Constitutional Theory of the Family

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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