The long-run effect of 9/11: Terrorism, backlash, and the assimilation of Muslim immigrants in the West

Eric D Gould, Esteban F Klor, 30 January 2012

How does radical Islamic terrorism impact Muslim immigrants in the West? The backlash against Muslims in the US after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 damaged assimilation among Muslim immigrants, argue the authors of CEPR DP8797 – and they present strong evidence to prove it.

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URL: http://www.cepr.org/DP8797
Topics: Migration, Politics and economics
Tags: cultural assimilation, immigration, Islam, terrorism

International terrorism and the escalation effect

Nauro F Campos, Martin Gassebner, 7 April 2009

Conventional explanation attribute terrorism to lack of income or liberal democracy. This column argues that political instability is a better predictor of international terrorism. It says that civil wars and guerrilla warfare provide training grounds in which terrorists amass the personnel and skills needed to commit terrorist acts. Reducing political violence might reduce subsequent terrorism.

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What drives international terrorism? What are the deep causes influencing the behaviour of terrorist organisations over time and across countries? What can simultaneously explain the decreasing number of international terrorist acts since the mid 1980s and the increasing average number of fatalities from such acts?

Topics: Frontiers of economic research
Tags: terrorism

The price of oil and the state of the world economy: using terrorism as the instrumental variable

Natalie Chen, Liam Graham, Andrew J Oswald, 17 August 2008

Higher energy prices are likely to reduce profitability of industry and thus could bring about an economic downturn. The authors of DP 6937 experiment with terrorist acts as an instrumental variable, in order to examine the relationship between the price of oil, terrorist incidents and the resultant effects on profitability and margins.

There is both casual and formal evidence from the post-war period that abrupt movements in the price of oil have significant effects on the macroeconomy, as neoclassical economic theory would predict. Higher energy prices are likely to reduce profitability of industry and thus could bring about an economic downturn.

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URL: http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=6937&action.x=0&action.y=0&action=ShowDP
Topics: Energy, Global economy
Tags: economic recession, energy prices, profitability, terrorism

Workshop on "Conflicts, Globalization and Development"

13 - 14 November 2008, Paris

CEPR and the Paris School of Economics are jointly organizing (with financial assistance from Agence Nationale pour la Recherche, ANR) a one and a half day workshop focusing on conflicts, globalization and development. The workshop will take place at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne campus of the Paris School of Economics. Papers are being sought that focus on the following topics: · Causes and consequences of violent conflicts: civil wars, interstate wars, terrorism, rebellion... · Arms trade · International trade, capital flows and violent conflicts · Institutions and violent conflicts · Multilateral institutions and conflicts . Political versus economic causes of conflicts...

Organizer(s):
Vincent Vicard, Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer, Mathias Thoenig and Thierry Verdier
Type:
Workshop
Location:
Paris
Attendance:
Closed attendance
Contact:
nclarke@cepr.org
Institution:
CEPR and the Paris School of Economics
More information:
http://www.cepr.org/meets/Diary/forthcomingmeetings.asp?mnum=11

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Topic(s):
Development, Politics and economics
Tags:
Conflict, development, globalisation, institutions, terrorism, trade

Do we know enough about terrorism?

Fernanda Llussá, José A. Tavares , 10 December 2007

We know too little about the causes and consequences of terrorism and what we do know is not listened to. For example, existing empirical and theoretical research on the economics of terrorism contradicts common wisdom that terrorists are irrational misanthropes with little education and low income. More research is needed.

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Probably not. Think of terrorists as irrational misanthropes with little education and low income. Think of terrorist attacks as causing major economic damage. Think of fear of terrorism as perfectly rational and well understood. If you think like this, you may gain some comfort from the fact that many people think like you. But you (and they) are wrong.

Topics: Politics and economics
Tags: economic research, terrorism

What makes a terrorist?

Alan B. Krueger, 11 September 2007

To economists, criminals are people with a low opportunity cost and few legitimate opportunities. Terrorism is different. Terrorists and their organisations seek to make a political statement; terrorists arise when there are severe political grievances with no alternatives for pursing those grievances.

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My former classmate Tyler Cowen, in his review of my new book, What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, said, “My only complain

Topics: Politics and economics
Tags: terrorism

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