TY - JOUR PY - 2004// TI - Suicidal terrorism and discriminatory screening: an efficiency-equity trade-off JO - Defence and peace economics A1 - Yetman, J SP - 221 EP - 230 VL - 15 IS - 3 N2 - Recent world events have cast a spotlight on what role, if any, discriminatory screening should play in aircraft security. This paper argues that if observable characteristics indicate differing probabilities of committing acts of terrorism, then following a non-discriminatory screening policy that fails to utilize those observable characteristics may be pareto-dominated by a screening policy that discriminates based on observable characteristics, even if agents are risk-neutral.

LA - SN - 1024-2694 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1024269042000189264 ID - ref1 ER -