The macroeconomic impacts of the 9/11 attack: Evidence from real-time forecasting

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Roberts, Bryan W ^a  

^a US Department of Homeland Security   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11 attack; Growth; Macroeconomic impacts; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349314772     PISSN: 10792457     EISSN: 15548597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1554-8597.1166     Document Type: Article

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