The past and future of terrorism research

Revista de Economia Aplicada

Volumn 17, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 5-25

  Sandler, Todd ^a  

^a School of Economic Political and Policy Sciences   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benefit cost analysis; Counterterrorism; Economic consequences; Game theory; Policy effectiveness; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349900266     PISSN: 1133455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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