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Does A Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target
Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014 …. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO countries over the period 2010-2018. The results suggest that … that did not experience such a large change of government since the NATO summit in 2014. Countries that experienced a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018180
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The Effects of International Sanctions on Military Spending of Iran : A Synthetic Control Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019
We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to 2015 on military spending of Iran. We create a synthetic control group that mimics the socioeconomic characteristics of Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859051
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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358399
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Trade, conflicts, and political integration: the regional interplays
Vicard, Vincent - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the different forms taken by regional integration in different parts of the world. This raises the issue of the relationship between economic and political integration. The theoretical model shows that, in an insecure world, the interplays between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264011
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National borders, conflict and peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276759
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COP 21 and Economic Theory: Taking Stock
Tulkens, Henry - 2016
The texts of the COP 21 Decision and its Annex are scrutinized from the particular point of view of the extent to which economic theoretic concepts can be considered to inspire them. While this is shown to be partially the case in some of the intentions, the texts themselves contain more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522418
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Losing on the Home Front? Battlefield Casualties, Media, and Public Support for Foreign Interventions
Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2023
How domestic constituents respond to signals of weakness in foreign wars remains an important question in international relations. In this paper, we study the impact of battlefield casualties and media coverage on public demand for war termination. To identify the effect of troop fatalities, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469567
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When to Expect a Coup D'État? An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Coup Determinants
Gassebner, Martin; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2016
Over the last several decades, both economists and political scientists have shown interest in coups d'état. Numerous studies have been dedicated to understanding the causes of coups. However, model uncertainty still looms large. About one hundred potential determinants of coups have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555507
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Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555530
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Cyber Technology and Arms Race
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2017
Cyber technology represents digital military capability with the purpose of causing damage to the military strength and the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war using cyber technology. This paper introduces such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615920