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We study terrorist choice from the perspective of economics and psychology. Using RANDMIPT data about the injuries and fatalities inflicted by different terrorist attack methods, we compute sets of preference orderings over the attack methods using prospect theory. This incorporates reference...
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This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained …-aim oriented. Such a consideration is important for enabling security measures that are likely to be effective against terrorism in … Africa and South Asia. If for example, terrorism is motivated largely by existential other-worldly goals, standard security …
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This paper considers the extent to which terrorism in Africa and South Asia is an economic good that can be explained …-aim oriented. Such a consideration is important for enabling security measures that are likely to be effective against terrorism in … Africa and South Asia. If for example, terrorism is motivated largely by existential other-worldly goals, standard security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097038
State: the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, 9/11 2001, and the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing This paper … effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy. …
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Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in actual politics and rational choice analyses of … terrorism. But there are superior strategies to deterrence. One is to make terrorist attacks less attractive. Another to raise …
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Terrorism will be high on the political agenda for many years to come. Various policies are open to a government … fighting terrorism but, in any case, considerable costs are involved. In the competition for political support, the costs and … benefits of anti-terrorism policies will be debated. Better information about terrorism and its consequences can improve policy …
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Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of … terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627947
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of … terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The first one is to make terrorist attacks less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673520
: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder of New York City – NYC (1797-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal...
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used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism …
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