Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we … investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country … the actual perpetrators and victims of suicide attacks. Our results do not indicate that religious cleavages are an …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth …

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about … afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … suicide. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity …

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues … gender composition. -- religion ; suicide ; Prussian economic history …

goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that …

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 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 …

We perform an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic consequences of international terrorism and interactions … panel growth regression analysis and a structural VAR model. We find that, on average, the incidence of terrorism may have … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …

, in order to mitigate concerns over selectivity of terrorism in particular areas. I empirically show that both terrorism … compare such political changes after successful attacks to those after failed attacks of the same type. I find that post-terrorism … acquisition as alternative explanations. This paper first empirically analyzes the driver of the rally effect of terrorism by …