Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods
and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of …

This article relies on the variation of terror attacks across time and space as an instrument to
identify the causal effects of terrorism on the preferences of the Israeli electorate. We find …

Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect
terrorism. We take an alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic …

This article investigates the interaction between terror attacks and electoral outcomes in
Israel. The authors analyze a dynamic model of reputation that captures the salient …

This paper examines the stock price impact of terrorist attacks. Using an official list of
terrorism-related incidents compiled by the Counterterrorism Office of the US Department of …

We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 113 countries
between 1984 and 2012. We provide evidence, robust to various methodological changes …

We analyze the determinants of the origin of domestic and international terrorism in a large
panel data set of 159 countries spanning from 1970 to 2007. We show that terror increases …

Since the outbreak of the Intifada in September 2000, the Israeli government has extensively
employed a policy of assassinating members of Palestinian terrorist organizations …

We assess the effects of terrorism on capital flight in a panel of 29 African countries for which
data is available for the period 1987–2008. The terrorism dynamics entail domestic …

The attacks of September 11, 2001, and more recently the Madrid and London downtown
train bombings, have raised concerns over both the safety of downtowns and the continuous …