We study a theoretical general equilibrium environment in which the only activity of interest is armed robbery. Agents choose whether to be citizens or robbers, and whether to purchase handguns. Armed citizens can protect themselves from robbery but any armed agent runs the risk of accidentally...

Arms transfers are both an economic necessity for the European arms industry and a potential obstacle for the emerging normative power role of the European Union (EU) in world affairs. Indeed, the biggest markets for arms exports in the post-Cold War era are often in states engaged in conflict...

In this paper, we construct a model of market structure in the global arms industry linking concentration, military procurement, international trade and regional conflict. We show how concentration depends on the willingness of producers to import for their military needs and on the relative...

This paper estimates the causal impact of landmines on child health and household expenditures in Angola by exploiting geographical variations in landmine intensity. We generate exogenous variation in landmine intensity using the distance between communes and rebel headquarters. As predicted by...

Die Wehrgüterproduktion unterscheidet sich in verschiedener Hinsicht von den übrigen Produktionszweigen der deutschen Industrie. Dies beginnt schon damit, daß in der Bundesrepublik von einer wehrtechnischen Industrie nicht gesprochen werden kann, weil die meisten wehrgüterproduzierenden...

Die Inlandsnachfrage der Bundeswehr leistete 1988 nur im Luft- und Raumfahrzeugbau (34,4%) und im Schiffbau (10,4%) einen hohen Beitrag zum Gesamtumsatz. Der größte Teil der Nachfrage geht mit 45% nach Bayern. Die Abhängigkeit der einzelnen Bundesländer von der Wehrgüternachfrage ist in...