The trends and consequences of terrorist activities are often captured by counting the
number of incidents and casualties. More recently, the effects of terrorist acts on various …

Terrorism is the premeditated use or threat of use of violence by individuals or subnational
groups to obtain a political or social objective through the intimidation of a large audience …

This overview examines critically the post-9/11 empirical literature on terrorism. Major
contributions by both economists and political scientists are included. We focus on five main …

The Political Economy of Terrorism presents a widely accessible political economy
approach to the study of terrorism. It applies economic methodology–theoretical and …

We perform an empirical investigation of the macroeconomic consequences of international
terrorism and interactions with alternative forms of collective violence. Our analysis is based …

This article studies the various mechanisms by which democracy affects transnational
terrorism. New theoretical mechanisms are identified that either complement or encompass …

I present a model of the interaction between a government, a terrorist organization, and
potential terrorist volunteers in which, as a result of an endogenous choice, individuals with …

We provide an overview of empirical evidence on the determinants of terrorism, in particular
focusing on the origins and targets of transnational terrorism. We also assemble several …

The occurrence of the terrorist attacks in Madrid in 2004 and in London in 2005 introduced
two new concepts to the European public debate:'Homegrown terrorism'and 'radicalisation' …

Prior research has concluded that socio-economic development does not significantly affect
terrorism. We take an alternative view. First, we note that a country's socio-economic …