Lock, stock, and barrel: A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Public Choice

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 235-261

  Gassebner, Martin ^a,b   Luechinger, Simon ^a,c  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causes of terrorism; Extreme bounds analysis; Panel estimations; Poverty and terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053906751     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9873-0     Document Type: Article

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