Terrorist events typically vary along many dimensions, making it difficult to identify their economic effects. This paper analyzes the impact of terrorism on international trade by examining a series three large-scale terrorist incidents in France over period from January 2015 July 2016. Using firm-level data at monthly frequency, we document an immediate and lasting decline cross-border after ...

Highly lethal terrorist attacks, which we define as those killing 21 or more people, account for 50% of the total number of people killed in all terrorist attacks combined, yet comprise only 3.5% of terrorist attacks. Given the disproportionate influence of these incidents, uncovering systematic patterns in attacks that precede and anticipate these highly lethal attacks may be of value for unde...

Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 227-254. SEUNG-WHAN CHOI is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Security and Defence Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He will join the faculty of the University of Illinois, Chicago in August 2004. He specializes in international politics (terrorism and international conf...