the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war … likelihood of a war reducing the deterrence …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

Current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 …-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization or decreases with higher levels of economic openness. However …, consistent with economic norms theory, higher levels of market-capitalism are associated with less anti-American terrorism …

's level of CT is systematically related to terrorism. We introduce a simple theoretical framework, suggesting that terrorism … countries from 1970-2014, we find evidence for these predictions: Terrorism peaks at intermediate ranges of CT and corresponding …

World Economic Survey assess the effect of terror on the world economy and the economy of their own country. The results …

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and … open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide …), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we … terrorism to voice dissent and achieve a redistribution of wealth. Furthermore, we provide evidence of an indirect effect of …