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 …

We perform an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic consequences of international terrorism and interactions … observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 2000, which brings together information from the Penn World Table dataset, the ITERATE … panel growth regression analysis and a structural VAR model. We find that, on average, the incidence of terrorism may have …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …

'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 …