How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large …

This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …

paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series of three large-scale terrorist incidents …

provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism. We find that higher levels of military … aid led to an increased likelihood of the recipient country to produce anti-American terrorism. For our preferred … instrumental-variable specification, doubling U.S. military aid increases the risk of anti-American terrorism by 4.4 percentage …

We compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using fifty years of data from two … impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger realised impact in all regions in both gross and per-capita terms. The largest … cross-peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million Lifeyears, while terrorism took ten …

Usually, studies analyzing terrorism focus on the total number of casualties or attacks in a given county. However, per … capita rates of terrorism are more likely to matter for individual welfare. Analyzing 214 countries from 1970 - 2014, we show … terror per capita. A larger share of Muslims in society is, if anything, associated with less terrorism. Similar conclusions …