on a two-period signaling game. The terrorists, taking into account the government's counter-terrorism response to first … choice it observes in period 1 and adjusts its second period counter-terrorism spending according to the perceived threat of … terrorism. Combining the signaling game and organizational growth approaches of previous contributions, this paper shows that …

terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …

psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why … – although predicted by standard economic theory – defection is a phenomenon rarely observed. We finally present some policy … – with respect to the aims of terrorism as well as the means to attain them – and reducing the information bias – with …

We analyze the performance of various communication protocols in a generalization of the Crawford-Sobel (1982) model of … possible that informative communication with one or both receivers is impossible in private, but possible in public. When the … by public communication with the flexibility provided by private communication and transmit more information to the …

We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …

the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …

the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …