TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - 'Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't': mimicking behaviour of growth-oriented terrorist organizations
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Hendel, Ulrich
SP  - 665
EP  - 687
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
N2  - This paper examines the interaction between a growth-oriented terrorist organization and an uninformed government based on a two-period signalling game. Combining the signalling game and organizational growth approaches of previous contributions, this paper shows that, if a terrorist group follows a growth strategy, it has an incentive to appear weaker than it is by mimicking the behaviour of a smaller organization. Depending on its beliefs about the extent of the terrorist threat, it can be optimal for a government to spend more on second-period counter-terrorism measures if it is not attacked in the first period than if it were attacked.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2014.996006
ID  - ref1
ER  -