This paper analyses the military expenditures in Italy over the period 1988--2008. The estimation of a conventional model of military expenditure shows that the choices of military expenditure by Italian governments are influenced by US and, to a lesser extent, the other NATO countries' defence...

Military physicians consider potential career earnings when making their stay/leave decisions. Moreover, they consider the effects of differences between military and civilian compensation at three distinct decision periods in the military career: the first year of unobligated service, the years...

This article presents the results of an empirical survey of Slovenian defence enterprises focusing on three segmented geographic market outlets: the domestic market, the other European Union (EU-26) markets and the global markets. In the enterprise surveys are included around two-thirds of the...

Do American troops help or hinder economic growth in other countries? We consider a newly constructed dataset of the deployment of U.S. troops over the years 1950--2000 and discover a positive relationship between deployed troops and host country economic growth, which is robust to multiple...

We investigate the link between economic performance and terrorism for 18 Latin American countries from 1970 to 2007, taking into account the potentially complex nature of this link. Panel causality analysis findings indicate that during this period, terrorism had no causal effect on economic...

Over the last 30 years, there has been an impressive amount of empirical work on the defence--growth nexus, using different methodologies, models and econometric techniques and focusing on individual case studies, cross-country studies or panel data studies. Despite the number and the variety...

The degree of collectiveness aimed for in European defence policy raises issues such as burden sharing and relative performance measurement of the European Armed Forces (EAF). This paper compares EAF performance rates on three dimensions: input, throughput and output. In order to express...

This paper considers the effect of corruption and military spending on economic growth, analysing both the direct impact of public spending and the effect of allocating resources between categories of public spending within the framework of an endogenous growth model. The model exhibits...

This article examines the pattern of expenditures for national security of the Netherlands from 1990 until 2009. In 1990, military spending amounted to 2.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 2009, almost two decades later, this ratio dropped by more than a full percent. During this period, the...

This paper makes a contribution to the debate on the economic effects of military spending using a large cross-country panel data-set for 1988--2006. As well as providing a relatively up to date analysis, sub-groups are created that allow the analysis to focus on groups of countries at different...