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Campos, Nauro F.
Gassebner, Martin
Date
2009-03Type
- Working Paper
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Abstract
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge in size, sign and significance. In this paper we present a new rationale (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism. Econometric evidence from a panel of more than 130 countries (yearly from 1968 to 2003) shows this to be a much more promising avenue for future research than the available alternatives. Show more
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KOF Working PapersVolume
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH ZurichSubject
ECONOMETRICS AND ECONOMETRIC MODELS (OPERATIONS RESEARCH); Terrorism; Political instability; ESKALATION VON INTERNATIONALEN KONFLIKTEN (INTERNATIONALE POLITIK); ÖKONOMETRIE UND ÖKONOMETRISCHE MODELLE (OPERATIONS RESEARCH); ESCALATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS (INTERNATIONAL POLITICS); INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS + RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS (INTERNATIONAL POLITICS); International terrorism; Escalation; INTERNATIONALE KONFLIKTE + KONFLIKTLÖSUNG (INTERNATIONALE POLITIK)Organisational unit
02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute
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