Economic effects of terrorist violence

The terrorist rhetorical style and its consequences for understanding terrorist violence

Economic Stress and Domestic Violence

VAWnet is a project of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence. “Although analyses of current financial statistics in relation to reported domestic violence (DV) incidents have yet to be completed, a sizable body of research that examines various economic indicators provides a framework for understanding how economic stress may contribute to DV. At the same time, available research in...

Communicating through Violence: an Application of Rational Choice Theory to Terrorist Claims of Responsibility

Title of Document: COMMUNICATING THROUGH VIOLENCE: AN APPLICATION OF RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY TO TERRORIST CLAIMS OF RESPONSIBILITY Melissa Lynn Rorie, Master of Arts, 2008 Directed By: Associate Professor Laura Dugan, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice The present research applied rational choice theory to terrorists’ decisions to formally claim responsibility for an attack. Logistic...

The Economic Effects of Political Violence: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda

Studies on the economic consequences of internal political violence typically find negative short-run effects that are not very large, and no evidence for full economic recovery. We study the impact of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 on economic development using the synthetic control method. We find a 58 percent decrease in GDP in 1994, and strong evidence that Rwanda’s economy was then catching ...

Industry Effects of Recent Terrorist Attacks: Evidence From Singapore

In this paper, the impact of five recent terrorist attacks on equities listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange is examined. We analyse how these events affect the different sectors in Singapore, using the Global Industry Classification Standard. Employing a variety of parametric and non-parametric tests, the relationship between stock returns for equities listed in these sectors and terrorist at...