Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49503 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3550
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the effect of 65 proposed correlates. Evaluating around 13.4 million regressions, we find 18 variables to be robustly associated with the number of incidents occurring in a given country-year, 15 variables with attacks against citizens from a particular country in a given year, and six variables with attacks perpetrated by citizens of a particular country in a given year.
Subjects: 
causes of terrorism
poverty and terrorism
panel estimations
extreme bounds analysis
JEL: 
D74
F51
F52
H56
K42
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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