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 …

Individual terrorist are frequently behaving seemingly absurd, e.g. by carrying out suicide operations, while … terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …

This paper provides a theoretical analysis regarding the rationality of suicide attacks from an economist’s point of … view. It is argued that although a terrorist gives up future utility from consumption by committing a suicide attack, this … loss can be overcompensated by the utility he derives from the attack. Some individual cases of suicide bombers are …

suicides on a general population's suicide rate. This study presents a new approach to empirically disentangle both mechanisms …. Imitation theory suggests that celebrities act as role models, and that the Werther effect is triggered by the status of the … celebrity in question. Anomie theory, on the other hand, suggests that the Werther effect is triggered by the unexpectedness of …

zeigen deutlich, dass Politik jenseits des geteilten Entsetzens über die Ausmaße des internationalen Terrorismus doch in … horror of the extent of international terrorism. …

Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this … evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than on other forms …

The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish … terror. We analyze determinants of domestic and international terrorism, for target and origin using the Global Terrorism …

Sorgen um den globalen Terrorismus als um ihre eigene wirtschaftliche Situation. Besonders ältere Menschen und Frauen … Abitur machen sich signifikant seltener große Sorgen um den globalen Terrorismus. Diese Befunde sind wichtig, weil Emotionen … politischen Umgang mit Terrorismus. …

areas, and combating terrorism both at home, and abroad. …