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Stock market returns and terrorist violence: evidence from the Basque Country

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  • Carlos Barros
  • Luis Gil-Alana

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We analyse the extent of the negative effects of violence in the Basque Country on the financial and economic activity of the region. We use daily data of the Basque stock market index and employ long memory regression models, with the Spanish stock market index and an index for violence employed as weakly exogenous regressors. The results show that violence significantly reduces the stock market returns in the area. On the other hand, the volatility processes are positively correlated with violence, though not statistically significant.

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  • Carlos Barros & Luis Gil-Alana, 2009. "Stock market returns and terrorist violence: evidence from the Basque Country," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(15), pages 1575-1579.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:16:y:2009:i:15:p:1575-1579
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850701578918
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    2. Carlos P. Barros & Luis A. Gil-Alana, 2011. "Terrorism: The Case of ETA," Chapters, in: Derek L. Braddon & Keith Hartley (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Conflict, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Bash, Ahmad & Alsaifi, Khaled, 2019. "Fear from uncertainty: An event study of Khashoggi and stock market returns," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 54-58.
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    8. Emmanuel Apergis & Nicholas Apergis, 2017. "The impact of 11/13 Paris terrorist attacks on stock prices: evidence from the international defence industry," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 45-48, January.
    9. Ramiah, Vikash & Wallace, Damien & Veron, Jose Francisco & Reddy, Krishna & Elliott, Robert, 2019. "The effects of recent terrorist attacks on risk and return in commodity markets," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 13-22.
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