On the Determinants of Terrorism Risk Concern in Europe

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 291-310

  Drakos, Konstantinos ^a   Mueller, Catherine ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Probit; Survey data; Terrorism risk concern; Time series decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897970552     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2013.763472     Document Type: Article

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