The Soviet Union was able to develop a large military-industrial complex and become the world’s second superpower despite the small size of its malfunctioning planned economy because defence was given high priority status and special planning, rationing and administrative mechanism were...

The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on quantitative firm-level data analysis for the whole population of...

Reconsidering the model of dynamic competition originally presented by J. Steindl (in: "Essays in Honour of M. Kalecky", 1964) relating profit margins and concentration with the rate of growth of the market demand, in a more broad and general purpose, this article states that the optimal...

Analyses the impact of the ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).