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

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

European Security

ISSN

0966-2839

e-ISSN

1746-1545

Svazek periodika

33

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

665-689

Kód UT WoS článku

001159596000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85184881470