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Investment or Overkill: Should Military Child Development Centers Be Accredted?
Armed Forces & Society, 1996This study examines whether accreditation of military child development centers (CDCs) pays off in a context of rigorous quality standards and aggressive compliance monitoring under the Military Child Care Act (MCCA) of 1989. To collect information about the value of accreditation, we reviewed accreditation standards and inspection documents, fielded ...
Gail L. Zellman, Anne S. Johansen
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Military expenditure and investment in OECD countries, 1954–1973
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1980This paper, using data for 14 large OECD countries between 1954 and 1973, tests the hypothesis that reduced investment has been a major opportunity cost of military expenditure in the postwar period. The share of investment in potential output is made a function of the share of military expenditure, growth rate, and demand pressure.
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Do Civilian Spin-offs Justify Investments in Military Technology?
1989Though reams have been written in an attempt to justify investments in military technology on the grounds of civilian spin-offs, a really convincing apologia has yet to appear. Useful civilian spin-offs are certainly the justification put forward by the military and it is quite true, of course, that there have been many such instances of some ...
Umberto Colombo, Giuseppe Lanzavecchia
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Factors influencing the modernization of military-investment economic appraisal systems
Defence and Peace Economics, 2013Budgetary restrictions resulting from the present international economic crisis have tightened the need to improve efficiency in defense spending, leading to the armed forces having to undertake their duties with fewer resources. Previous reports on the subject have looked into the determining factors and effects of military spending but very few ...
Andrés Navarro-Galera +3 more
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Military Spending and Private Investment: The Case of Israel
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011This thesis analyzes the long-run Crowding Out Effect of military expenditures on investment in Israel from 1948 to 2009. Changes in military spending are expected to affect the real interest rate and investment since the government has to borrow in order to finance the expenditure.
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Peace Dividends: The Exclusion of Military Contractors from Investment Portfolios
Journal of Peace Research, 1993There are many ways in which opposition to, or distaste for, the production of armaments and other equipment used for military purposes can be expressed. The purpose of this paper is to introduce to the peace studies literature the possibility that such views can find expression in the construction of equity investment portfolios.
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Attention beyond the battlefield: Voters’ responses to foreign military investments
Conflict Management and Peace ScienceThis study examines how voters respond to non-crisis military developments, focusing on general military, cyber, and nuclear capabilities. Using a survey experiment, it explores how information about these developments shapes voters’ preferences for US military spending. The findings show that voters are especially attentive to foreign cyber build-ups,
Nadiya Kostyuk, Ryan Shandler
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