A Comment on the Power Law Relation Between Frequency and Severity of Terrorist Attacks

Saperstein Alvin M. ()
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Saperstein Alvin M.: Wayne State University

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2010, vol. 16, issue 1, 6

Abstract: Richardson first pointed out the power-law relation between the occurrence of war-like events and the consequent casualties. More recently, attention has been paid to the observed power-law relation between the frequency of terrorist acts and the number of resulting casualties and attempts have been made to explain these observations by deriving them from a model of randomly aggregating and disaggregating terrorist groups. This comment points out a weakness in the model and offers a simple extension to eliminate it.

Keywords: terrorist; casualties; frequency of attacks; power law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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