Thirty Years of Conflict and Economic Growth in Turkey: A Synthetic Control Approach

Bilgel, Fırat; Karahasan, Burhan Can

doi:10.1080/10242694.2017.1389582

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“…Thus, terrorism decreased the economic growth in the Basque region of Spain in the late 1960s (Abadie & Gardeazabal, 2003) and Pakistan between 1981 and 2012 (Hyder et al, 2015). Studies on the terrorism-economy nexus in Israel (Eckstein & Tsiddon, 2004) and Turkey (Bilgel & Karahasan, 2019) indicate that if these countries had not been exposed to chronic terrorism, their economies would have been in much better shape: 10% higher per capita income in Israel and 21.4% higher per capita GDP in Turkey. Another adverse effect of terrorism on the economy refers to a decline in aviation demands and tourism.…”

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Viruism: The need for a new term describing COVID-19 impact in context of viral victimization.

Cohen-Louck

Levy

2021

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: COVID-19 is the current viral pandemic. Its consequences are multifaceted and refer to individual and public physical, mental, and economic states. Therefore, viral outbreaks raise many fears and concerns, both among policymakers and individuals. In light of these fears, we explore the central aspects of viral victimization, compared to another significant threat of this century: terrorism. Analysis: There are many similarities between terrorism and the current pandemic which manifest within the physical, economic, social, and psychological aspects of victimization. To address the multidimensional nature of the pandemic's impact we coined the term viruism. Though terrorism and viruism are not the deadliest of threats, they evoke high levels of fear and cause enormous financial, social, and psychological effects. Conclusion: We recommend exploring the psychosocial mechanisms that account for public reaction to viruism. Identifying such mechanisms will contribute to developing more effective practices in managing the fear of viruism and in decreasing its emotional toll. Clinical Impact StatementViruism is a new term that represents pandemic related victimization. The article presents viruism by comparing it to terrorism. Viruism, similar to terrorism, includes physical, economic, social, and psychological aspects. Although both phenomena manifest severe physical consequences, these consequences are more limited than those of other much more "effective killers" as smoking, obesity, or air pollution. The comparison indicates that in the case of terrorism and viruism there is a gap between the objective risk and subjective fears. Effective coping mechanisms dealing with the fear of viruism should be a significant aspect in research on and response to future pandemics.

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Viruism: The need for a new term describing COVID-19 impact in context of viral victimization.

Cohen-Louck

Levy

2021

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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“…It is widely documented in the growth literature that countries experiencing a high degree of political instability have lower GDP growth (see Aisen and Veiga, 2013; Bienen, 2013; Nurudeen et al ., 2015; Bilgel and Karahasan, 2019). And we would expect the recurrent political unrest and conflict in Ethiopia to disrupt investment in public and private goods.…”

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Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies

Dinku

Regasa

2021

South African J Economics

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The effect on economic outcomes of ethnic diversity remains debatable. Some view ethnic diversity as a deterrent of development, whereas others consider it a source of innovation and productivity, which can be translated into a higher level of development. This study aims to shed further light on the issue. Applying instrumental variables estimation to district‐level data, we find that ethnic diversity has a significant positive association with nighttime light intensity, which is used as a proxy for level of economic activity. The finding is robust to alternative specifications. Our finding suggests that centuries of interethnic contacts and coexistence may have helped ethnically diverse communities to gain experimental knowledge of the diverse beliefs and social practices and transition it into better economic outcomes.

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“…They finally compared the magnitude of the effects of the "brutality" and the "frequency" of terror attacks and concluded that the effect of the frequency is slightly higher than the effect of the brutality. Bilgel and Karahasan (2019) analyzed the economic performance of the Turkish economy with and without terrorism and found that the Turkish economy would experience superior economic growth of about 0.62% per year provided there are no terrorist attacks during this period. Zakaria et al (2019) also examines the impact of terrorism on economic growth in Pakistan using the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation approach.…”

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Is terrorism a spoilsport for the sustainability of economic development?: evidence from the economic community of West African states

Adeve

2023

IJSE

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PurposeThe objective of this paper is to determine the impact of terrorism on the sustainability of the development of West African countries, highlighting the role and interactions of income inequality and the level of education in this relationship for the period 2000–2019.Design/methodology/approachThe appropriate tests indicated that the dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) model is the most suited to analyze the terrorism phenomenon in the study area.FindingsThe results confirm the critical challenge to sustain economic development in a context marked by a high risk of terrorist attacks. Fortunately, the negative effect of terrorism on economic development is not a fatality. Ways do exist to limit the magnitude of the phenomenon impacts since the results also revealed that countries with higher percentages of educated people experience a lower magnitude of terrorism impact. Similarly, reducing inequalities is another way of controlling the magnitude of terrorism's impact on development sustainability.Originality/valueThis paper aims to contribute to the economic literature on the economic effects of terrorism in two main ways. First, to the author's knowledge, this is the first attempt to establish terrorism implications in terms of development sustainability in the ECOWAS region. The second contribution is that the author tries to find an empirical validation of the hypothesis according to which an increase in the level of education and improvement in income distribution could reduce the impact of terrorism on development sustainability.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-08-2022-0565.

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Thirty Years of Conflict and Economic Growth in Turkey: A Synthetic Control Approach

Cited by 25 publications

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Viruism: The need for a new term describing COVID-19 impact in context of viral victimization.

Viruism: The need for a new term describing COVID-19 impact in context of viral victimization.

Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies

Is terrorism a spoilsport for the sustainability of economic development?: evidence from the economic community of West African states

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