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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The value of national defense : assessing public preferences for defense policy options
Qari, Salmai; Börger, Tobias; Lohse, Tim; Meyerhoff, … - 2023
Defense spending accounts for a large share of the budget in many countries, but the value of the resulting public good - national defense - has so far escaped assessment. Much of the literature has instead considered indirect benefits of defense spending in terms of greater economic growth or...
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The political economy of conscription
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009
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...
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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; 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...
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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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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...
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Is the completion of EU single market hindered by VAT evasion?
Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2003
The planned movement to the origin principle with the cross-border pre-tax system on a full-scale would lead, ceteris paribus, to changes in VAT revenues in the individual EU countries. For instance, the member countries with trade surpluses and higher VAT rates would be significantly better...
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