War and the world economy: Stock market reactions to international conflicts

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 623-645

  Schneider, Gerald ^a   Troeger, Vera E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercial liberalism; E GARCH and T GARCH models; Economy and war; Event data; Financial markets; War rallies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748516739     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: 15528766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002706290430     Document Type: Article

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