Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119329 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Economics of Security Working Paper No. 3
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
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.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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