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How Terrorism Explains Capital Flight from Africa

We assess the effects of terrorism on capital flight in a panel of 29 African countries for which data is available for the period 1987-2008. The terrorism dynamics entail domestic, transnational, unclear and total terrorisms. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) with forward orthogonal deviations and Quantile regressions (QR). The following findings are established. First, for GMM, domestic, unclear and total terrorisms consistently increase capital flight, with the magnitude relative higher from unclear terrorism. Second, for QR: (i) the effect of transnational terrorism is now positively significant in the top quantiles (0.75th and 0.90th) of the capital flight distribution, (ii) domestic and total terrorisms are also significant in the top quantiles and (iii) unclear terrorism is significant in the 0.10th and 0.75th quantiles. Policy implications are discussed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/15/034

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Econometric Modeling: General
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Multinational Firms; International Business
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: General, International, or Comparative
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
Thema
Capital flight
terrorism
Africa

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Efobi, Uchenna
Asongu, Simplice A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
(wo)
Yaoundé
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Efobi, Uchenna
  • Asongu, Simplice A.
  • African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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