Brauer, Jurgen - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 973-1015). 2007
arms production. The chapter further discusses characteristics of the small arms and light weapons industry. A highly … data sources are poor, that arms production and trade theory is underdeveloped, and that although non-proliferation regimes …, especially the product-cycle hypothesis, may explain certain features of the spacial and temporal diffusion of small arms …