Economic Performance And Terrorist Activity In Latin America

Daniel Meierrieks and Thomas Gries

Defence and Peace Economics, 2012, vol. 23, issue 5, 447-470

Abstract: We investigate the link between economic performance and terrorism for 18 Latin American countries from 1970 to 2007, taking into account the potentially complex nature of this link. Panel causality analysis findings indicate that during this period, terrorism had no causal effect on economic growth. By contrast, we find that growth reduced terrorism in the less developed but not in the higher developed Latin American economies. We argue that group-specific differences (linked to patterns of economic development) govern this causal heterogeneity. From a series of negative binomial regressions we gain additional support for our findings, while also identifying further determinants of terrorism.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2012.656945

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