Mohtadi, H., and A. Murshid, "The Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An
Extreme Value Approach", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 24,
No. 4, 2009, pp. 537-559.

The bulk of the data used in this paper are drawn from Memorial Institute
for the Prevention of terrorism. Up until 2007, data on individual terrorist
incidents were available at their website http://www.mipt.org/. From this
source the authors compiled a database on domestic and international
terrorist incidents. Additionally, the authors compiled a database of CBRN
incidents from various primary source materials. The combined data are in
the file titled, mipt-cbrn.cvs. It lists the number of incidents of
terrorism as well as the number of fatalities, injuries, and total
casualties arising from conventional terrorism AS WELL AS from CBRN
terrorism. The data are reported on a daily frequency and are broken down by
region.

The analyses in the paper are based on the maximum number of single-day
casualties and fatalities in six month periods. These semi-annual maxima,
which are drawn from these daily data, are reported in the file
titled maxima.csv. 

Both data files are ASCII files in DOS format. The are zipped in the file
mm-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".

Hamid Mohtadi
mohtadi [AT] uwm.edu
Antu Panini Murshid
amurshid [AT] uwm.edu