Martin Gassebner|Simon Luechinger
Lock, stock, and barrel: a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror
Swiss Finance Institute|ETH Zurich|Swiss Finance Institute|ETH Zurich
assess robustness previous findings determinants terrorism using extreme bound analysis three comprehensive terrorism datasets focusing three commonly analyzed aspects terrorist activity ie location victim perpetrator reassess effect 65 proposed correlates evaluating around 134 million regressions find 18 variables robustly associated number incidents occurring given countryyear 15 variables attacks citizens particular country given year six variables attacks perpetrated citizens particular country given year