Democracy’s third wave and national defense spending

Trade Costs , Conflicts , and Defense Spending ∗

This paper develops a quantitative model of trade, military conflicts, and defense spending. Trade liberalization between two countries reduces probability of an armed conflict between them, causing both to cut defense spending. This in turn causes a domino effect on defense spending by other countries. As a result, both countries and the rest of the world are better off. We estimate the model ...

National medical care spending.

Migration and National Defense

T H E GREAT POPULATION MOVEMENTS which have played such an important role in the development of this country had their roots in the shifting pattern of economic opportunity. During the nineteenth century, millions of Europeans left poverty and the restricted horizons of the old country to seek a place in the expanding life of America. The pioneer West offered the farmer and the prospector wider...

Trade Costs , Conflicts , and Defense Spending Michael Seitz

This paper develops a quantitative model of trade, military conflicts, and defense spending. Trade liberalization between two countries reduces probability of an armed conflict between them, causing both to cut defense spending. This in turn causes a domino effect on defense spending by other countries. As a result, both countries and the rest of the world are better off. We estimate the model ...

National health care spending trends: 1988.