The Open Society Assesses its Enemies: Shocks, Disasters and Terrorist Attacks
This paper conducts a systematic investigation of the incidence and economic costs of terrorist attacks at the country level. We use newly assembled data sets on terrorist attacks, natural disasters and currency crises to answer three different questions: what are the determinants of terrorism; is there an output cost following a terrorist attack; and is that cost larger or smaller in the case of democracies. (…)