Is military spending quantitatively important for business cycle fluctuations?

Aleksandar Vasilev

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2021, issue Forthcoming

Abstract: We introduce a military sector and external security considerations into a real-business-cycle setup with a public sector. We calibrate the model to Bulgarian data for the period following the introduction of the currency board arrangement (1999-2018). We investigate the quantitative importance of the presence of a military sector and external threat considerations for the cyclical fluctuations in Bulgaria. We find the quantitative effect of such aspects to be very small, and thus not important for business cycle stabilization, or public finance issues, as in Bulgaria the spending on military is relatively small relative to the size of the economy.

Keywords: business cycles; military spending; security considerations; external threats (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Journal Article: Is Military Spending Quantitatively Important for Business Cycle Fluctuations? (2022)
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