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Estimating The Macroeconomic Consequence Of 9/11, S. Brock Blomberg, Gregory Hess May 2009

Estimating The Macroeconomic Consequence Of 9/11, S. Brock Blomberg, Gregory Hess

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We perform an empirical investigation to estimate the macroeconomic cost of September 11 attacks on the United States economy. We estimate the impact of the attacks to be approximately a 0.50 percentage point decrease in GDP growth or $60 billion. Our upper bound estimate of the impact of September 11 is approximately twice that or $125 billion.