Terms-of-Trade and Counterterrorism Externalities

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Todd Sandler and Javed Younas ()

No 2017-17, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: This paper investigates the interplay of trade and terrorism externalities under free trade between a developed nation that exports a manufactured good to and imports a primary product from a developing nation. A terrorist organization targets both nations and reduces its attacks in response to a nation?s defensive counterterrorism efforts, while transferring some of its attacks abroad. Terms-of-trade considerations lead the developed nation to raise its counterterrorism level beyond the ?small-country? level, thus compounding its over provision of these measures. By contrast, the developing nation limits its defensive countermeasures below that of the small-country level. The analysis is extended to include proactive countermeasures to weaken the terrorist group. Again, the developed country raises its efforts owing to the terms-of-trade externality, which now opposes the under provision associated with proactive efforts. A second extension allows for several developing country exporters of the primary product.

Keywords: Terms-of-trade externalities; transference externalities; terrorism; defensive counterterrorism; proactive counterterrorism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 H41 H56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2017-06-01
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2017.017

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