Economic Performance And Terrorist Activity In Latin America

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 447-470

  Meierrieks, Daniel ^a   Gries, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic conditions; Economic growth; Latin America; Negative binomial regression; Panel causality analysis; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867219485     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2012.656945     Document Type: Article

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