Spending on personnel or equipment: panel analysis of military expenditures in the NATO countries 2005-2019

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10477389" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10477389 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5rYWckRXxi" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5rYWckRXxi</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2023.2293075" target="_blank" >10.1080/09662839.2023.2293075</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spending on personnel or equipment: panel analysis of military expenditures in the NATO countries 2005-2019

Original language description

Defence effort is often discussed in terms of relative military spending - as % of GDP. The aggregate nature of this measure, however, hides important within-budget dynamics. Specifically, states have to make hard choices about distributing their spending among personnel and equipment expenditures. NATO has adopted a recommendation that 20% of the defence budget should go to equipment. Our paper contributes to the emerging literature on determinants of personnel vs. equipment share. We perform panel data regression on NATO countries between 2005 and 2019. Our results indicate that (i) equipment is more elastic to overall military expenditures than personnel, and (which is a novel contribution of our paper) (ii) that larger All-Volunteer Forces (AVF) create demands for increased personnel spending even well after the transitioning period, (iii) How mature is the AVF plays no role, while relative personnel costs is an important predictor. The second result yields especially important implications for the renewed policy debates on the limits of the AVF model in the context of European security.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Security

ISSN

0966-2839

e-ISSN

1746-1545

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

665-689

UT code for WoS article

001159596000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85184881470