Examining the effect of repressive and conciliatory government actions on terrorism activity in Israel

- We examine the impact of the Israeli government actions on terrorist activity.
- This study endogenizes repressive and conciliatory government counterterrorism policies.
- An increase in repressive actions leads to a reduction in terrorist attacks.
- An increase in conciliatory actions has no effect on terrorism.
- Terrorists' response to government actions is symmetric.

This paper examines the impact of repressive and conciliatory actions by Israel on terrorist activity using vector autoregression. Increases in repressive actions lead to a significant reduction in terrorist attacks. Conciliatory actions, on the other hand, have no effect.