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Brazilian nuclear-powered submarine : national defense and technological externalities
Andrade, Israel de Oliveira; Silva, Márcio Magno de … - 2020
In order to prepare and employ naval power and contribute to national defense, the Brazilian Navy, through its programs and projects, seeks to develop means of implementation of naval war operations and actions suitable for its main tasks - sea denial and control, and power projection. A...
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The defense industry in Brazil : characteristics and involvement of supplier firms
Squeff, Flávia de Holanda Schmidt; Assis, Lucas Rocha … - 2015
Over the last decade, the defense industry has obtained relevance on Brazilian public policies. Departing from the premise that the success of this process requires not only that the Armed Forces have modern equipment and skilled military to operate them, but also that the country retains the...
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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1996
Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …
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International comparisons of real military purchasing power : a global database
Robertson, Peter E. - 2019
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The military rise of China
Robertson, Peter E. - 2023
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Left-wing butter vs. right-wing guns : government ideology and disaggregated military expenditures
Olejnik, Łukasz Wiktor - 2024 - This version: March 2024
This article demonstrates that the influence of government ideology on military expenditures is more nuanced than it was shown in previous research and using only aggregated military expenditures may provide ambiguous results. The disaggregation of military expenditures allows concluding that in...
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2020
To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...
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Charitable giving in the German welfare state : fiscal incentives and crowding out
Bönke, Timm; Massarrat-Mashhadi, Nima; Sielaff, Christian - 2010
Governmental activities in welfare states influence private charitable giving predominantly in two ways: (1) government spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives may boost private charitable giving. For a rich...
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Deficits, crowding out and inflation : the simple analytics
Buiter, Willem H. - 1982
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