control variables and method of estimation. -- Terrorism ; decentralization ; federalism ; governance quality ; government … decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring … stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively … long-lived, depressing bilateral trade up to five years after a terrorist event. Our findings are consistent with terrorism …

The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism … Database and show that there have been major shifts in terror activity and composition over time. -- terrorism ; terror groups …

To better understand potential relationships between income and terrorism, we study data for 1,527 subnational regions … alternative specifications. The threat of terrorism systematically rises as low-income polities become richer, peaking at an … pattern emerges for domestic and transnational terrorism alike. Peaks in the income-terrorism relationship differ by …

We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most … state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare … legislative term limits lead to more fiscal decentralization. -- term limits ; pork-barrel spending ; rent …

We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the … infrastructure. We find that after the dramatic expenditure decentralization of 2001, districts with relatively lower levels of … and administrative decentralization, we find no consistent effects of the democratization process on local public …