Fighting terrorism: Are military measures effective? Empirical evidence from Turkey

Mete Feridun and Muhammad Shabaz

No 7919, Greenwich Papers in Political Economy from University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre

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: 2010-04-30
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Published in Defence and Peace Economics 2.21(2010): pp. 193-205

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