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effect of government spending on output. Following a popular assumption that military spending is unlikely to respond to … output at business-cycle frequencies - and exploiting variation in military spending of a significantly larger magnitude than … economies and in countries with a fixed exchange rate. The output response to government spending persists for about two to …
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the effects of government spending on output in advanced and developing countries. Identifying government-spending shocks …
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This paper investigates the economic impact of a coordinated reduction in military expenditures of 20 percent using a specially modified version of the MULTIMOD world economic model. Simulation results indicate that in developing countries the present value of consumption increases by 46 percent...
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Analysis of the economic impact of military expenditures and arms trade is frequently hampered by the limited amount of transparent, comprehensive data. Country-specific information can be supplemented, however, by data from multicountry statistical sources. This paper describes seven...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of defense spending on the U.S. macroeconomy since World War II. First, we construct a new panel dataset of state-level federal defense contracts. Second, we sum observations across states and, using the resulting time series, estimate the aggregate effect...
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the effects of government spending on output in advanced and developing countries. Identifying government-spending shocks …-9, circulated under the title 'Output Response to Government Spending: Evidence from New International Military Spending Data.' …
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effect of government spending on output. Following a popular assumption that military spending is unlikely to respond to … output at business-cycle frequencies — and exploiting variation in military spending of a significantly larger magnitude than … economies and in countries with a fixed exchange rate. The output response to government spending persists for about two to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013539
This paper studies the evolution of worldwide military spending during 1970-2018. It finds thatmilitary spending in relation to GDP is converging, but into three separate groups of countries. Inthe largest group, responsible for 90 percent of worldwide spending, outlays have remainedstubbornly...
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Scholarship on the relationships between key macroeconomic variables and defense investment is divided on both the appropriate level of aggregation for such analysis, and the direction of causality between macroeconomic variables and defense investment. Both NATO and the EU, through the European...
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This paper evaluates the factors responsible for maintaining substantial military expenditures in Greece and Turkey. The presented research encompasses theoretical and empirical aspects. First, defense spending by both countries was analyzed based on statistical data from international sources....
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