@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4259,
            	author={Dreher, Axel and Fischer, Justina A.V.},
            	title={Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis},
            	year={2009},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4259},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4259},
	abstract={Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of control variables and method of estimation.},
	keywords={government effectiveness;governance quality;federalism;decentralization;terrorism},
            }