Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/284359 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series No. 45
Publisher: 
University of Freiburg, Department of International Economic Policy (iep), Freiburg i. Br.
Abstract: 
We are the first to analyze the effect of terror on stock markets by terror ideology. Surprisingly, we find that Islamist terror attacks created significant negative abnormal returns in American and European markets, but the stock market effects of other terror attacks were almost nil. For our sample of all 124 terrorist attacks in the US and Europe in the period 1994 to 2018 that caused at least five fatalities or ten injured people, we show that Islamist terror attacks are given significantly more air time (also after controlling for attack characteristics and the media pressure of competing news stories). This, however, explains only part of the differential effect of Islamist attacks on the stock markets.
Subjects: 
Terror
stock market
event studies
Islamist terror
media
JEL: 
D74
F52
G10
G40
H56
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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