Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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I present empirical evidence showing that terrorism financing and recruitment pro- mote terrorist attacks. Pakistan offers an ideal setting for this research due to a natural experiment inducing exogenous variation in terrorism financing. In line with terrorist organisations facing financial frictions, I find a correspondence between the timing and location of finance and the attacks by organisations exposed to this transfer. The effect of financing on attacks increases in recruitment, measured by combining dark web data and machine learning. These results suggest that financial counter-terrorism lowers attacks, which I quantify by estimating the elasticity of terrorist attacks to financing (0.25).

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 287

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Corporate Finance and Governance: General ; National Security and War
• Thema: Terrorism ; Finance

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Limodio, Nicola
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
• (wo): Chicago, IL
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/262689
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ