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APPLYING MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY TO THE ANALYSIS OF TERRORISM. COMPUTING THE SET OF ATTACK METHOD COMBINATIONS FROM WHICH THE RATIONAL TERRORIST GROUP WILL CHOOSE IN ORDER TO MAXIMISE INJURIES AND FATALITIES

Peter J. Phillips Department of Finance and Banking, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 193-213 | Received 14 Mar 2007, Accepted 07 Jan 2008, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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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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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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Gabriela Pohl. (2015) Media and Terrorist Choice: A Risk–Reward Analysis. Journal of Applied Security Research 10:1, pages 60-76.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2014) Prospect Theory and Terrorist Choice. Journal of Applied Economics 17:1, pages 139-160.
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PeterJ. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2012) Economic Profiling of the Lone Wolf Terrorist: Can Economics Provide Behavioral Investigative Advice?. Journal of Applied Security Research 7:2, pages 151-177.
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Jing Zhang & Jun Zhuang. (2019) Modeling a multi-target attacker-defender game with multiple attack types. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 185, pages 465-475.
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Peter J. Phillips. 2019. Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy. Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy 91 110 .
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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Vineet M. Payyappalli, Jun Zhuang & Victor Richmond R. Jose. (2017) Deterrence and Risk Preferences in Sequential Attacker-Defender Games with Continuous Efforts. Risk Analysis 37:11, pages 2229-2245.
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Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, W. J. Wouter Botzen & Saskia E. Werners. (2014) Portfolios of adaptation investments in water management. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 20:8, pages 1247-1265.
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Samrat Chatterjee, Stephen C. Hora & Heather Rosoff. (2015) Portfolio Analysis of Layered Security Measures. Risk Analysis 35:3, pages 459-475.
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Peter Phillips. 2014. Understanding Terrorism: A Socio-economic Perspective. Understanding Terrorism: A Socio-economic Perspective 159 191 .
Sunniva Meyer. (2013) Impeding lone-wolf attacks: lessons derived from the 2011 Norway attacks. Crime Science 2:1.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2013) How to Fight Terrorism: The Relevance of Qualitative Economics. Applied Economics Quarterly 59:3, pages 197-207.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2010) Terrorists’ Equilibrium Choices When No Attack Method is Riskless. Atlantic Economic Journal 39:2, pages 129-141.
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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. (2014) Geographic Profiling of Lone Wolf Terrorists: The Appication of Economics, Game Theory and Prospect Theory. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Gabriela Pohl. (2014) A New Picture for Understanding Terroristss Opportunities and Choices When Media Coverage is a Desired Payoff. 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 & Gabriela Pohl. (2013) Changing a Terrorist’s Appetite for Risk. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2013) The Hunt for the Cyber-Terrorist. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2012) Lone Wolf Terrorism: Prudence in the Lone Wolf’s Planning and the Time Delay between Acts of Lone Wolf Terrorism. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2012) CSI: Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips. (2011) The Lone Wolf Terrorist: Sudden Sprees of Violence. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Peter J. Phillips & Gabriela Pohl. (2011) Economic Profiling of the Lone Wolf Terrorist: Can Economics Provide Behavioural Investigative Advice?. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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