EU Demand for Defense, 1990–2019: A Strategic Spatial Approach
For 1990–2019, this study presents two-step GMM estimates of EU members’ demands for defense spending based on alternative spatial-weight matrices. In particular, EU spatial connectivity is tied to EU membership status, members’ contiguity, contiguity ...
Justin George, Todd Sandler
doaj +1 more source
Trade costs, conflicts, and defense spending [PDF]
This paper develops a quantitative model of trade, military conflicts, and defense spending. Trade liberalization between two countries reduces probability of an armed conflict between them, causing both to cut defense spending. This in turn causes a domino effect on defense spending by other countries.
Seitz, Michael +2 more
openaire +4 more sources
Conflict, defense spending, and the number of nations [PDF]
Abstract This paper provides a formal model of endogenous border formation and choice of defense spending in a world with international conflict. We examine both the case of democratic governments and of dictatorships. The model is consistent with three observations.
Alesina, Alberto, Spolaore, Enrico
openaire +4 more sources
Conditions influencing the change of defense budgets - the case of Lithuania
During the so-called Cold War the financing of the defense budget was widely discussed. The issue of financing the defense budget was widely discussed during the arms race.
Gediminas Dubauskas
doaj +1 more source
Coups d’état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis [PDF]
We explore how institutional set-ups, in particular changes in political institutions through coups d’état, can affect the way military expenditures are determined. We use a counterfactual approach, the synthetic control method, and compare the evolution of the military burden for 40 countries affected by coups with the evolution of a synthetic ...
Bove, Vincenzo, NISTICO', ROBERTO
openaire +2 more sources
Effects of Defense Spending on Economic Growth and Its Indirect Effects on Private Consumption in Iran: A Supply Side Approach [PDF]
Defense industry plays an important and strategic function in economy. Defense industry effects economy mainly through security and weapon exports. There has been a growing literature examining military expenditures in developing countries. Theoretically,
Mohammad Hossein Hassani Sadrabadi +1 more
doaj
Evaluating the Relationship between Security Costs and Private Fixed Capital Formation in Iran [PDF]
Based on economic structure of a country, defense spending and security costs as a public good, can have a positive or negative impact on private sector activities.
seyyed parviz jalili kamju +1 more
doaj +1 more source
Defense Expenditures and GDP Growth Rates in the World: Determinants and Interrelationships
This study is devoted to assessing the relationship between the dynamics of defense spending in countries around the world with their economic growth, while this problem is becoming more relevant as geopolitical conflicts intensify in the modern world ...
Repnikov Dmitry A.
doaj +1 more source
The production of national defense and the macroeconomy.
This study investigates the interactions between defense production and the rest of the economy. We develop a two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with military and nonmilitary production.
José L Torres
doaj +1 more source
Analysis of Factors Affecting Defense Expenditures: An XAI-Based Model
This paper investigates how economic capacity, budget priorities, and governance conditions jointly shape defense spending in a transparent and auditable empirical framework.
Zulfukar Aytac Kisman +7 more
doaj +1 more source

