This chapter provides an analytical survey of models explaining the level of military expenditure, emphasizing empirical econometric models based on optimizing behavior. After setting out the standard neo-classical model in which nation states are represented as rational agents maximizing a...

Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) techniques have proven to be useful in understanding market structures at a single point in time. In addition to examining snapshots of markets, it has been suggested that the construction of longitudinal joint spaces in conjunction with econometric modeling...

We introduce a new biased estimator called the Equity estimator to estimate parameters of linear models in the presence of multicollinearity. We then employ a comprehensive simulation methodology to evaluate OLS, the Equity estimator, and a particular form of the Ridge estimator which has...

This study presents a time series analysis of the cyclical relationship between the labour force participation rate and the unemployment rate in Australia over the period 1979-1998. The Hodrick-Prescott filter is employed to extract the cyclical components of the series, which are used for the...