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Arms production, national defense spending and arms trade : examining supply and demand
Blum, Johannes - 2019
Scholars have estimated demand functions for national defense spending and investigated international arms trade for a long time. The relationship between supply and demand for military goods has, however, only been examined on aggregate level or in formal models yet. I investigate how the...
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Democracy's third wave and national defense spending
Blum, Johannes - 2020
I investigate how the third wave of democracy influenced national defense spending by using a panel of 110 countries for the period 1972-2013. I use new SIPRI data on military expenditure, which has been extended to years prior to 1988 and four democracy measures to address differences among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300935
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Are government-linked corporations crowding out private investment in Malaysia?
Menon, Jayant; Ng, Thiam Hee - 2013
Private investment in Malaysia has been sluggish since the Asian financial crisis. One explanation is that the growing … presence of government-linked corporations (GLCs) has been crowding out private investment. For the first time, we provide … empirical evidence on the relationship between GLC presence and private investment. We find that when GLCs are dominant in an …
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Crowding in during the Seven Years' War
Palma, Nuno; Sissoko, Carolyn - 2022
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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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Output response to government spending : evidence from new international military spending data
Sheremirov, Viacheslav; Spirovska, Sandra - 2015 - This version: July 2015
Using 25 years of military spending data from more than a hundred countries, this paper provides new evidence on the 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...
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Fiscal multipliers in advanced and developing countries : evidence from military spending
Sheremirov, Viacheslav; Spirovska, Sandra - 2019 - This version: February 2019
Using novel data on military spending for 129 countries in the period 1988-2013, this paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending on output in advanced and developing countries. Identifying government-spending shocks with an exogenous variation in military spending, we...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249117
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249922
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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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