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Can News Draw Blood? The Impact of Media Coverage on the Number and Severity of Terror Attacks

A study of the relationship between terrorism coverage and subsequent attacks.

Archive listing: 2023-09-06

Research context

Beckmann, Dewenter and Thomas combine Media Tenor television data with the Global Terrorism Database. Their working paper reports different short- and longer-term relationships. Granger causality here concerns predictive information in time series; it does not establish that a particular news story caused a particular attack.

Bibliographic record

K. Beckmann, R. Dewenter and T. Thomas (2016). Working Paper Series No. 169, Department of Economics, Helmut Schmidt University

The source archive lists this entry on 2023-09-06. The research publication date is given in the citation above.

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