Trade and the Spillovers of Transnational Terrorism

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - 2009
José de Sousa1, Daniel Mirza2, Thierry Verdier3
1Maison des Sciences Économiques, 106-112 boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
2Faculté de droit et sciences économiques François Rabelais de Tours, 50 avenue Jean Portalis, 37000, Tours, France
3École normale supérieure, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris, France

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Summary We examine the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and international trade. To counter the diffusion of transnational terrorism, targeted governments implement security measures against countries where terror could potentially diffuse. Since security measures raise trade costs, we argue that countries, close enough to those from where terror originates, should experience negative spillovers on their trade. We find evidence for this hypothesis in our data. We show that the closer a country is to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its trade.

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