caa a22 4500 378872486 CHVBK 20180305123412.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030424xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1558-3708.1102 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1558-3708.1102 Faria Joao Ricardo 1University of Texas at Dallas, jocka@utdallas.edu Terror Cycles [Elektronische Daten] [Joao Ricardo Faria] This paper makes two contributions to the literature on terrorism: 1) It presents a model that explains the cyclical characteristics of terrorist attacks, and 2) It improves on the existing theoretical cyclical models since it takes explicitly into account terrorists’ motivations and decision-making. The model assumes that the government acts as leader and terrorists as followers. Terrorists maximize terrorist acts over time constrained by their budget constraint, which yields a time path for terrorist activities. Then the government maximizes national security by taking the time path of terrorist activities and investments in enforcement as constraints. The model shows that permanent cyclical paths for enforcement, terrorist activities, terrorist capital and national security may arise as an optimal solution. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston D74 nationallicence C69 nationallicence Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics De Gruyter 7/1(2003-04-24) 7:1 2003 7 snde https://doi.org/10.2202/1558-3708.1102 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1558-3708.1102 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Faria Joao Ricardo 1University of Texas at Dallas, jocka@utdallas.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics De Gruyter 7/1(2003-04-24) 7:1 2003 7 snde CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter