A note on the international comparison of military expenditure

Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: The comparison of military expenditures raises some technical, economic and political difficulties, concerning mainly the differing national monetary units, conceptual differences, secrecy of information, chronological comparisons and the difficulty of define armaments. Exchange rates have several limitations as a conversion factor in international comparisons and chronological data have a problem to solve with general price indices, improvement and innovation of armaments. Using general purchasing-power parity is costly and need a lot of hypothesis. Then, special analyses must be applied in order to improve the military expenditures comparisons.

Keywords: price indices; Military expenditures; international comparisons; chronological data; comparaisons internationales; comparaisons inter temporelles; indice des prix; Dépenses militaires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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Published in International Economic Association. The Economics of Military Expenditures, MacMillan, 1987

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