Von Neumann Morgenstern (NM) expected utility forms a part of the foundations of theoretical defence economics and the economic analysis of terrorism. NM expected utility maximisation can be used to derive important results with implications for government defence policies. However, the amount...

This is an open source monograph about the economics of teams and the collection of intelligence in an espionage, counter-intelligence context. Our focus is decision-making, including search processes, under ambiguity or true uncertainty and the way that idiosyncratic human reactions to...

We study terrorist choice from the perspective of economics and psychology. Using RAND-MIPT 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...