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Effects of Neighboring Nation Terrorism on Imports
Abstract: We present a monopolistic competition model to analyze the effects of own nation and neighboring nation terrorism on a nation’s imports. The theoretical analysis shows that own nation terrorism may leave relative price of imports unaffected, but neighboring nation terrorism must raise the relative price, reducing imports. We find that a 10% increase in terrorist attacks in a neighboring nation reduces a country’s imports from the rest of the world by approximately $320 million USD, on average. Mediation analysis shows that trading delays is a potential channel of transmission of trade costs of terrorism to a neighbor.
Keywords: Terrorism; Spillovers; Bilateral imports;
JEL Classification: D74; F14; H56;
https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2019.017
Status: Published in Southern Economic Journal
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 2020-02-03
Number: 2019-017
Note: Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12508
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