This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of the demand for Canadian military expenditures through the estimation of a demand for defence expenditures model for the time period 1952-2001 using, among others, the auto-regressive distributed lag approach to cointegration (ARDL) to...

This survey article deals with defence policy, spending and the industrial base in Canada since the Second World War. In particular, the macroeconomic realities underpinning defence expenditure patterns as well as the unique microeconomic conditions affecting the Canadian defence industrial base...

This paper presents a brief description of the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) price trend model and the associated chained Laspeyres defence specific price index. The paper also discusses the theoretical justification for and against defence specific inflation (DSI) and presents...

This paper revisits the NATO burden sharing debate with particular emphasis on the use of non-parametric tests that measure the equality of relative benefits and burdens. While the joint product model makes a compelling case for the equality of benefits and burdens in NATO after 1967 (as a...

This paper identifies and classifies middle power nations through the use of broad political science definitions, the demand for military expenditures models and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The latter is used as a simple quantifiable measure of relative and potential military power....

This paper explores the impact of moving to accrual budgeting on resources allocation in defence. Standard defence budgeting and investment models are used to assess the theoretical implications of accrual budgeting. In addition, a number of simulations are conducted to assess the long-term...