Protectivity Versus Productivity And Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence From Selected Countries

Abstract

This paper tries to cast light on the effects of terrorism on some macroeconomic variables at the international level. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) we investigate the effects of terrorism on such variables as GDP growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) and total factor productivity (TFP) with cross section data of 2005 for a sample of both developed and developing countries. The results suggest that terrorism has adversely and significantly affected economic growth, FDI and TFP around the world. In line with Abadie and Gardeazabal (2007) we find that once the effects of other country-specific characteristics such as country risk, good governance, and restrictions on FDI are taken into account these results are still robust.