The Demand for Arms Imports.
This article presents estimates of demand functions for arms imports for a panel of 52 countries, 1981-99, where there are non-zero observations for both the main measures, WMEAT and SIPRI. In principle, the WMEAT series is a value measure, while the SIPRI series is a volume measure, thus the ratio...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Peace Research Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 167 - 182 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2005
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