The endogenous and non-linear relationship between terrorism and economic performance: Turkish evidence

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Araz Takay, Bahar ^a   Arin, K Peren ^b,c,e   Omay, Tolga ^d  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Centre for Applied Macroeconmic Analysis (CAMA)   (Australia)

^d CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Terror; VAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849147752     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690701775509     Document Type: Article

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