On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
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- Ralph Rotte & Christoph Schmidt, 2003. "On the production of victory: Empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(3), pages 175-192.
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Keywords
military production function; technical progress; leadership; numerical superiority; battlefield success; military technology;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- D29 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Other
- H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
- N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
- O39 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIC-2002-06-18 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2002-06-13 (Public Economics)
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