peaceful as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. We hypothesize that organizations are more … likely to resort to terrorism rather than rebellion in richer countries where population mobilization is more difficult. We …

transnational terrorism. We then survey the recent economic literature in light of this framework by pointing to the importance in …' countries of terrorism and c) to take into account the intertemporal persistence of terrorism between specific pairs of …

This paper examines whether terrorism is an effective tool to achieve political goals. By exploiting variation in … response to terror. Hence, terrorism appears to be an effective strategy in terms of shifting the entire Israeli political … landscape to the left. These findings may shed light on the causes underlying the spread of global terrorism in the last few …

In this paper, we study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set up a simple … theoretical model predicting that the closer a country is to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its … its neighbor countries where terrorism may diffuse. In contrast, we demonstrate that countries located far rom terror …

prominently, commanding 30% of current defense R&D spending, versus just about 13% for intelligence and anti-terrorism. The second …, and the extent to which security against terrorism is (still) a public good. I develop for that purpose a simple model of … terrorism, cast in a nested discrete choice framework. Two strategies are considered: fighting terrorism at its source, and …