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The Impact of Terrorism on the Defense Industry

Berrebi, Claude; Klor, Esteban F. - RAND - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on Israeli companies related to the defense, security or anti-terrorism industries, relative to its impact on the rest of the companies. The authors match every Israeli company to the American company with the closest expected return among all the...

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Terrorism, war, and global air traffic

Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, J. Paul - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 7 (2012) 1, pp. 22-29

It is thought that one of the affected industries of the 9/11 terror event was the global airline industry through the …

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Terrorism, war, and global air traffic.

Brauer, Jurgen; Dunne, J. Paul - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 7 (2012) 1, pp. 22-29

It is thought that one of the affected industries of the 9/11 terror event was the global airline industry through the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395404

Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?

Fischer, Justina AV - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011

We test whether immigrants are more prone to support terror than natives because of lower opportunity costs, using the … irrelevant to terror support. As robustness test we relate individual attitude to real-life behavior: using country panels of … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …

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Immigration, integration and terrorism: is there a clash of cultures?

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America

Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...

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Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Polachek, Solomon W.; Seiglie, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently...

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Does International Trade Reduce Political Disputes?

Beyene, Hailay Gebretinsae - In: Foreign Trade Review 50 (2015) 2, pp. 99-117

The effect of economic integration and other factors on interstate conflict has been examined with a delimited geographical scope. A logistic regression analysis is adopted with one-year lagged independent variables regressed on dependent variable of interstate conflict. It is revealed that the...

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Aspiraciones económicas, conflicto y trampas de pobreza en Colombia

García, Jhorland Ayala - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2014

Uno de los aspectos de la pobreza que no ha sido explorado empíricamente es aquel que tiene que ver con las aspiraciones económicas, entendidas como el deseo o la pretensión de un mayor ingreso futuro. Mediante modelos probit ordenados y estimación por máxima verosimilitud se busca...

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Extracción de recursos naturales, desarrollo económico e inclusión social

Sanborn, Cynthia A. - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013

¿El Perú se escapará esta vez de “la maldición de los recursos naturales”? ¿Podrá usar los abundantes recursos que genera la minería hoy, para cerrar las brechas sociales y reorientar su economía para mañana? ¿Podrá limitar los impactos ambientales y sociales negativos, que las...

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