TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Does terrorism increase after a natural disaster? An analysis based upon property damage JO - Defence and peace economics A1 - Paul, Jomon Aliyas A1 - Bagchi, Aniruddha SP - 407 EP - 439 VL - 29 IS - 4 N2 - Does an emergency such as a natural disaster lead to a surge of terrorism? This paper contributes to the emerging literature on this issue. We consider the experience of 129 countries during the period 1998-2012 to determine the effect of a natural disaster on both domestic as well as transnational terrorism. We also control for endogeneity using expenditure on health care and land area in a country as instruments. In contrast to the existing literature, we measure the extent of terrorism by the value of property damage. The results indicate that after natural disasters, (a) transnational terrorism increases with a lag, and (b) a statistically significant impact on domestic terrorism is not observed.
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LA - en SN - 1024-2694 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2016.1204169 ID - ref1 ER -