The impact of terrorism on tax enforcement effectiveness: a case study of the Basque Country and Navarre

Salvadori, Luca

doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1719281

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“…The Orlando nightclub massacre by an American-born terrorist on June 12, 2016 is an example of this leaderless jihad. Figure 1 takes its data from two terrorist event datasets: International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events (ITERATE) 8 On suicide bombings, see Benmelech and Berrebi (2007), Pape (2003Pape ( , 2005, Rosendorff and Sandler (2010), and Santifort-Jordan and Sandler (2014). A few nationalist/ separatist groups-most notably, the Tamil Tigers and the Kurdish Workers Party-use suicide bombings.…”

Section: The Evolving Threat Of Terrorism Since 1968mentioning

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What We Have Learned about Terrorism since 9/11

Gaibulloev

Sandler²

2019

Journal of Economic Literature

164

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This overview examines critically the post-9/11 empirical literature on terrorism. Major contributions by both economists and political scientists are included. We focus on five main themes: the changing nature of terrorism, the organization of terrorist groups, the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies, modern drivers or causes of terrorism, and the economic consequences of terrorism. In so doing, we investigate a host of questions that include: How do terrorist groups attract and retain members? What determines the survival of terrorist groups? Is poverty a root cause of terrorism? What counterterrorism measures work best? In the latter regard, we find that many counterterrorism policies have unintended negative consequences owing to attack transference and terrorist backlash. This suggests the need for novel policies such as service provision to counter some terrorist groups’ efforts to provide such services. Despite terrorists’ concerted efforts to damage targeted countries’ economies, the empirical literature shows that terrorism has had little or no effect on economic growth or GDP except in small terrorism-plagued countries. At the sectoral level, terrorism can adversely affect tourism and foreign direct investment, but these effects are rather transient and create transference of activities to other sectors, thus cushioning the consequences. (JEL F21, F52, H56, K42, Z31)

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