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Prospect Theory and Terrorist Choice

Peter J. PhillipsUniversity of Southern QueenslandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Gabriela PohlUniversity of Southern QueenslandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 139-160 | Received 01 Nov 2012, Accepted 01 Mar 2014, Published online: 22 Jan 2019

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Benjamin Harris. (2022) Revising the 1975 PIRA ceasefire through the lens of prospect theory. Irish Studies Review 30:3, pages 317-339.
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Peter J. Phillips & Benjamin McDermid. (2021) FinTech, terrorism-related fund transfers and behavioural finance. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 14:3, pages 226-246.
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Jean-Paul Azam & Mario Ferrero. (2019) Jihad Against Palestinians? The Herostratos Syndrome and the Paradox of Targeting European Jews. Defence and Peace Economics 30:6, pages 687-705.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2017) Terrorist choice: a stochastic dominance and prospect theory analysis. Defence and Peace Economics 28:2, pages 150-164.
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Aishwarya Harichandan. (2024) Rationality of the Terrorist Group and Government’s Policy: A Game Theoretic Approach. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 30:1, pages 27-53.
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Dong Jiang, Jiajie Wu, Fangyu Ding, Tobias Ide, Jürgen Scheffran, David Helman, Shize Zhang, Yushu Qian, Jingying Fu, Shuai Chen, Xiaolan Xie, Tian Ma, Mengmeng Hao & Quansheng Ge. (2023) An integrated deep-learning and multi-level framework for understanding the behavior of terrorist groups. Heliyon 9:8, pages e18895.
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Zheyong Piao, Dongwei Guo, Tao Peng, Yangsiqi Zhang, Xue Li & Hao Liu. (2022) Optimum selection of the new energy power station planning scheme based on the prospect theory. Optimum selection of the new energy power station planning scheme based on the prospect theory.
Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2021) Speaking of terrorist behaviour. Crime, Law and Social Change 77:5, pages 555-576.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2021) Crowd counting: a behavioural economics perspective. Quality & Quantity 55:6, pages 2253-2270.
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Yousra Trichilli, Hana Kharrat & Mouna Boujelbène Abbes. (2021) Prospect theory and risk-taking behavior: an empirical investigation of Islamic and conventional banks. Journal of Asset Management 22:3, pages 163-178.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2021) Algorithms, human decision-making and predictive policing. SN Social Sciences 1:5.
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Sebastian Thöns & Mark G. Stewart. (2020) On the cost-efficiency, significance and effectiveness of terrorism risk reduction strategies for buildings. Structural Safety 85, pages 101957.
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Peter J. Phillips. 2019. Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy. Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy 91 110 .
Elisa Impara. (2018) A social semiotics analysis of Islamic State's use of beheadings: Images of power, masculinity, spectacle and propaganda. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice 53, pages 25-45.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2018) The Deferral of Attacks: SP/A Theory as a Model of Terrorist Choice when Losses Are Inevitable. Open Economics 1:1, pages 71-85.
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ANTONY W. DNES & GRAHAM BROWNLOW. (2017) The formation of terrorist groups: an analysis of Irish republican organizations. Journal of Institutional Economics 13:3, pages 699-723.
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Gregory N. Price & Juliet U. Elu. (2017) Climate Change and Cross-State Islamist Terrorism in Nigeria. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 23:3.
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Raija Koivisto, Ilpo Kulmala & Nadezhda Gotcheva. (2016) Weak signals and damage scenarios — Systematics to identify weak signals and their sources related to mass transport attacks. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 104, pages 180-190.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2022) The Economics of Information and Human Factors in Cybersecurity. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips & Sarah Carberry. (2017) Terrorist Use of the 1/N Heuristic in Attack Method Choice. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2016) Tension within Terrorist Groups: The Role of Aspirations in Conflicting Assessments of Identity Definingg Versus Genericc Actions. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2014) Geographic Profiling of Lone Wolf Terrorists: The Appication of Economics, Game Theory and Prospect Theory. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2013) Female Lone Wolf Terrorists: The Gender Gap in Lone Wolf Terrorism and its Implications for Economic Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2012) CSI: Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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