• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: The Threat of Terrorism: The Perspective of a Policy-Maker
  • Contributor: Müller, Cathérine [Author]; de Ree, Joppe [Author]
  • Published: Berlin: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), 2009
  • Language: English
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access