all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to …

on terrorist attacks in the Middle East: Radical religious clubs are more lethal and choose suicide terrorism more often …, when they provide benign local public goods. Our results suggest benign tactics to counter terrorism by religious radicals …

This article provides an empirical investigation of the determinants of terrorism at the country level. In contrast … with the previous literature on this subject, which focuses on transnational terrorism only, I use a new measure of … terrorism that encompasses both domestic and transnational terrorism. In line with the results of some recent studies, this …

, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the …; version 7.0 of the Penn World Table will soon incorporate these results. The 2005 ICP, like earlier rounds, involved …

This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We …

We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …