FIGHTING TERRORISM: ARE MILITARY MEASURES EFFECTIVE? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY

Mete Feridun and Muhammad Shahbaz

Defence and Peace Economics, 2010, vol. 21, issue 2, 193-205

Abstract: The present article aims at investigating the causal relationship between defense spending and terrorism in Turkey using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure and Granger-causality analysis. The findings reveal that there exists a unidirectional causality running form terrorist attacks to defense spending as expected, but not vice versa. In the light of this finding it can be inferred that military anti-terrorism measures alone are not sufficient to prevent terrorism.

Keywords: Defense spending; Terrorism; Anti-terrorism; Causality testing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/10242690903568884

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