Terrorism and the world economy
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Terrorism and the world economy
It has been argued that terrorism should not have a large effect on economic activity, because terrorist attacks destroy only a small fraction of the stock of capital of a country (see, e.g., Becker, G., Murphy, K., 2001. Prosperity will rise out of the ashes. Wall Street Journal October 29, 2001). In contrast, empirical estimates of the consequences of terrorism typically suggest large effects...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Economic Review
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0014-2921
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2007.08.005