Mialon, Hugo M.; Mialon, Sue H.; Stinchcombe, Maxwell B. - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 1, pp. 33-41
We develop a counterterrorism model to analyze the effects of allowing a government agency to torture suspects when evidence of terrorist involvement is strong. We find that legalizing torture in strong-evidence cases has offsetting effects on agency incentives to counter terrorism by means...
