An empirical model of the United States-Japan alliance is presented by employing the linear logarithmic expenditure system. To analyze and test the impact of the Soviet Union's threat on both allies, external threats are incorporated into the demand system. The empirical results obtained the...

This paper presents a multiple public-good model to investigate the simultaneous provision of military goods and foreign aid as international public goods. The model enables us to probe the effect of comparative advantage in providing public goods. By applying the model to the United...

Probing the technology in the production of US national defence by using a dynamic cost-function model with adjustment costs, this paper evaluates the effect of reducing the level of national defence on the defence budget saving. Our inquiry involves estimating the defence production structure...