Decomposing violence: Political murder in Colombia, 1946-1999

Jurgen Brauer; Alejandro Gómez-Sorzano; Sankar Sethuraman

doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2003.06.003

Decomposing violence: Political murder in Colombia, 1946-1999

Jurgen Brauer, Alejandro Gómez-Sorzano, Sankar Sethuraman

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Abstract

We apply the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) and Beveridge-Nelson (BN) business cycle decomposition methods to a time series of homicides in Colombia (1946-1999). Separating out "permanent" from "cyclical" murder, we hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with the periodic political unrest in the country. The results show a good match between the political events in the country and the computed cyclical murder component.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	447-461
Number of pages	15
Journal	European Journal of Political Economy
Volume	20
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2003.06.003
State	Published - Jun 2004
Event	The Economic COnsequences of Terror - Berlin, Germany Duration: Jun 15 2002 → Jun 16 2002

Keywords

Beveridge-Nelson
Business cycle
Colombia
Hodrick-Prescott
Homicide
Terrorism

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Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations

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