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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 - In: Defence and Peace Economics (2019) Latest Articles, pp. 1-19

We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance 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...

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Peace as an international public good: An application to Southern Africa

Brauer, Jurgen; Roux, Andre - In: Defence and Peace Economics 11 (2000) 4, pp. 643-659

the case of security and peace in southern Africa. To this end, it extracts from the literature a set of fundamental …

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MULTI-CHANNEL SUPPLY CHAIN FOR ILLICIT SMALL ARMS

Markowski, Stefan; Koorey, Stephanie; Hall, Peter; … - In: Defence and Peace Economics 20 (2009) 3, pp. 171-191

To generate effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, governments …

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Does defence spending matter to employment in Taiwan?

Huang, Jr-Tsung; Kao, An-Pang - In: Defence and Peace Economics 16 (2005) 2, pp. 101-115

This paper investigates an important but neglected issue regarding the economic role of defence spending on employment in Taiwan. The study herein adopts official time series data of yearly defence spending, employment in the private sector, GDP, average monthly salary from 1966 to 2002, and the...

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Evasion costs and the theory Of conscription

Warner, John; Negrusa, Sebastian - In: Defence and Peace Economics 16 (2005) 2, pp. 83-100

Many countries of Europe are moving from conscripted to volunteer military forces. This paper examines the current status of those conversions and interprets them in light of an economic model of the military manpower procurement system choice developed in Warner and Asch (1996). The theoretical...

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Estimating defence budget saving from disarmament: the United States' case

Okamura, Minoru - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 4, pp. 309-330

Probing the technology in the production of US national defence by using a dynamic cost-function model with adjustment costs, this paper evaluates the effect of reducing the level of national defence on the defence budget saving. Our inquiry involves estimating the defence production structure...

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An alliance between Cyprus and Greece: assessing its partners' relative security contribution

Andreou, A. S.; Parsopoulos, K. E.; Vrahatis, M. N.; … - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 481-495

The issue that this paper tackles is the assessment of the relative security benefits that Cyprus and Greece derive in … uses a coefficient especially designed to assess the optimal levels of security and the associated defence expenditure of … the two allies. A comparison of the relative security coefficient values for the two allies suggests that the security …

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DO defence expenditures increase debt rescheduling in Turkey? probit model approach

Karagol, Erdal; Sezgin, Selami - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 471-480

This paper empirically investigates the importance of financial and political variables in determining debt rescheduling probabilities in Turkey for 1955-2000. The problem of sovereign debt default and rescheduling has been the subject of substantial academic research during the last two...

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The structure of the defense industry and the security needs of the country: a differentiated products model

Mantin, Benny; Tishler, Asher - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 5, pp. 397-419

This paper models the interactions between the defense needs of the USA and Western Europe, which produce several heterogeneous defense goods, and the defense industry market structure. The results show that net defense costs of the USA and Europe are lower when the number of defense firms in...

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Defence Spending and Growth in Cyprus: A Causal Analysis

Kollias, Christos; Naxakisb, Charis; Zarangasb, Leonidas - In: Defence and Peace Economics 15 (2004) 3, pp. 299-307

The causal relationship between economic growth and defence spending has attracted considerable attention and has been the subject of many empirical studies. Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and growth in...

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