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Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah - 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...
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The Political Economy of Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu - 2013
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095559
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Regulation, Institutions and Aggregate Investment : New Evidence from OECD Countries
Egert, Balazs - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies. Using a panel of … with less investment (lower capital stock). The paper also sheds light on the existence of non-linear effects of product …, barriers to entrepreneurship and barriers to trade and investment) tend to amplify the negative relationships between product …
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Using Military Build-Ups to Capture Fiscal Shocks : A Reassessment
Yang, Weonho - 2014
Ramey (2011a) and others argue that increases in government spending associated with wars and military build-ups constitute a good instrument for measuring the macroeconomic effects of fiscal shocks. We argue that this instrument has two important drawbacks: the composition of government...
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The Growth in Military Expenditure in Germany 1951-2011 : Did Parties Matter?
Kauder, Bjoern - 2015
We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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Lock, Stock, and Barrel : A Comprehensive Assessment of the Determinants of Terror
Gassebner, Martin - 2011
We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...
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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,...
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Offset Contracts As an Insurance Device in Building the National Security
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2017
A dynamic multi-stage decision-theoretic approach is introduced to establish the optimal offset and its incidence, the contract price arising from bargaining, and the scale of the acquisition. A new rationale is suggested for offsets in terms of their role as an insurance devise. Results are...
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Cyber Technology and Arms Race
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2017
that the expected return on cyber investment is convex. It is shown that an asymmetric successful cyber program results in … investment. The optimal scale of a cyber program of a country expected to have access to a superior cyber capability is derived …
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