counties' employment and earnings. As well, successful mass shootings decrease housing prices and consumer confidence and …

This paper considers terrorism as an extortion activity. It uses tools from the theory of extortion and from conflict … theory to describe how terrorism works, why terrorism is a persistent phenomenon, why terrorism is a violent phenomenon, and …

data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the … terrorism had little effect on school enrolment. High levels of exposure reduced the enrolment rate for boys by about 5 …

effect, the study employed Autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) bound testing approach as an estimation technique … long-run. However, the negative effect of terrorism tends to be small in both the short-run and long-run. More precisely …

This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan … countries. We argue that this effect partly operates through a decrease in public support for terrorism, which in turn reduces …

We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002 … of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly accounted for by means of an instrumental-variable approach, higher levels of … variable, different estimation techniques and different instruments for income inequality. Our finding that inequality fuels …

failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the …

This contribution examines the role of market-capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It differentiates between level …-peace literature coincide with less anti-American terrorism, it also suggests that the process of marketization has inflammatory … effects on anti-American terrorism. Using panel data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution indeed finds …