Remittances and terrorism: A global analysis

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 331-347

  Mascarenhas, Raechelle ^a   Sandler, Todd ^b  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic and transnational terrorism; Negative Binomial; Panel analysis; Remittances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899499243     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2013.824676     Document Type: Article

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