Raul Caruso

TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring together contributions from leading scholars who take an economic perspective to study the causes and consequences of conflict and conflict, and demonstrate not only how the tools of economics can be fruitfully used to advance our understanding of conflict, but how explicitly incorporating conflict into economic analysis can add substantively to our understand of observed economic phenomena.

TL;DR: In this paper, an estimation of the impact of economic negative sanctions on international trade is provided, through a gravity model approach, for the United States, the country which has most frequently applied negative economic sanctions after World War II.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the socioeconomic causes of terrorism and political violence in a sample of 12 countries in Western Europe and find that the larger the set of economic opportunities for an individual, the lower the likelihood or willingness for him to be involved in a terrorist activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of economic negative sanctions on international trade has been investigated through a gravity model approach, and the results show that extensive and comprehensive sanctions have a large negative impact on bilateral trade, while this is not the case for limited and moderate sanctions.

TL;DR: In this article, the socio-economic causes of terrorism and political violence in 12 countries in Western Europe were investigated and the classical economic argument of opportunity cost is confirmed that is, the larger is the set of current economic opportunities for individuals the lower is the likelihood or willingness for them to be involved in a terrorist activity.