bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … the prevalence of bribery is lower under these circumstances, using the International Crime Victim Surveys. I also find … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

Consumption and Investment are significantly and negatively affected by all terror indicators, and the largest impact is …

relative to the present is reduced. Hence, due to a rise in terror activity, investment goes down, and in the long run income …

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 …

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 …

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 …