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The Threat of Terrorism: The Perspective of a Policy-Maker

This note defines and analyzes the most important issues concerning decisionmaking about human-induced insecurities such as terrorism and organized crime from the perspective of a policymaker. By means of modeling the policymakers trade-o_ between the e_ectiveness and costs of policy measures targeted at reducing the threat of terrorism, we aim at helping to understand the role economic research can take to enable e_cient decisionmaking in the context of human-induced insecurities in general and terrorism in particular.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Economics of Security Working Paper ; No. 3

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Müller, Cathérine
de Ree, Joppe
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2009

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Müller, Cathérine
  • de Ree, Joppe
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Time of origin

  • 2009

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