Does a Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target

Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas

doi:10.1080/10242694.2019.1575141

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“…It has been suggested that a change of government may influence compliance with international agreements ( Blum and Potrafke, 2019 ). To explore the idea that a jurisdiction may adapt the speed of implementation, we have constructed a variable that captures any major changes in national government, either in the parliament, presidency or monarchy of the countries in our sample (an overview is available upon request).…”

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The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation

Schuknecht

Siegerink

2020

European Journal of Political Economy

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The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector. The study finds that the size of the banking sector and the presence of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are positively associated with a stronger implementation record. These results suggest that cooperative motives of internalising externalities, creating a level playing field and preserving financial stability play a role in explaining the implementation record. We find evidence that this cooperative behaviour may be driven by the self-interest of global players as the positive record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation only applies to large players. Sectoral concentration, bank health and the share of foreign ownership yield more mixed results as regards their impact on implementation.

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Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation

Schuknecht

Siegerink

2020

European Journal of Political Economy

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“…This result is based on the smaller sample size: if we use the sample for which we have information on party orientation and estimate the model in Section IV.3, the marginal effects of age and of having a PhD lack statistical significance too. We also use the government ideology data based on Potrafke () and extended by Blum and Potrafke (), which are available for OECD and NATO countries. Including these government ideology variables therefore gives rise to a smaller sample.…”

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“…21 Scartascini, Cruz and Keefer, 2017. 22 Bjørnskov and Potrafke, 2012;Potrafke, 2013b. use the government ideology data based on Potrafke (2009) and extended by Blum and Potrafke (2019), which are available for OECD and NATO countries. Including these government ideology variables therefore gives rise to a smaller sample.…”

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How to Handle the Fiscal Crisis in Greece: Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey of Economic Experts

2019

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We asked economic experts polled by the CESifo World Economic Survey how to handle the fiscal crisis in Greece in the year 2015. The sample includes about 850 experts from 110 countries. We find systematic differences in experts’ recommendations. Our results suggest that policy advice is related to an expert's personal and country‐level attributes. Country‐level characteristics, especially credit default swaps as a measure of fiscal stability, predict views on whether Greece should exit the eurozone. An expert's educational background, age and professional affiliation predict opinions on the credit programmes of the International Monetary Fund. We propose that policymakers who seek balanced policy advice should consult experts from different countries and personal backgrounds.

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“…There are many attempts in research to assess and identify factors influencing the military budget (Blum, 2019). Among Lithuanian authors, defense spending is examined by Jokubauskas (2015), reviewing the financing of the Lithuanian Armed Forces from the restoration of independence until the mid-twenties of the twenty first century.…”

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Conditions influencing the change of defense budgets - the case of Lithuania

Dubauskas¹

2021

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During the so-called Cold War the financing of the defense budget was widely discussed. The issue of financing the defense budget was widely discussed during the arms race. Since the end of the Cold War, armed conflicts have become more complex, and their causes are even more diverse than during the Cold War. They were caused by the deterioration of inter-ethnic divisions, hybrid and cyber wars over energy resources and the activities of terrorist groups. Due to the changing security dimension, a new study was conducted examining the determinants of defense spending in a changing security environment: the creation of new islands in the South China Sea to expand China's military-political power in the region; the possibility of using North Korea's nuclear energy. weapons, Russia's military maneuver in the conflict in Ukraine, its naval operation in the Black Sea, the occupation of Crimea, military operations in Syria, a change in U.S. military doctrine. The state that has spent the most military spending is returning to the creation of large military units, and to do so, the country needs to increase defense spending. Looking at how these world events work, we see one component that connects them. Strong force, expressed in military action, is used to achieve their political goals. Military power is gaining more and more influence in the formation of foreign policy, therefore the defense budget, as an instrument of foreign policy expressed in military power, is becoming an increasingly relevant object of research. Lithuania's defense budget is not as important to world politics as the United States, China or other major countries in the world, but it is relevant and significant in its region. Expenditures on the Lithuanian military budget began to increase significantly by two thousand and fourteen. It can be argued that the factor that has now influenced cost growth is Russia's military aggression in Ukraine. Nevertheless, in 2008 Russia's aggression in Georgia did not affect the growth of Lithuania's defense budget. 2008 The economic crisis may have influenced Lithuania's decision not to increase military spending. Some pressure on the country's defense budget is also related to the 2020 Pandemic crisis. The question arises as to why seemingly similar conflicts affect Lithuanian political decisions differently.

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Does a Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target

Cited by 26 publications

References 40 publications

The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation

The political economy of the G20 agenda on financial regulation

How to Handle the Fiscal Crisis in Greece: Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey of Economic Experts

Conditions influencing the change of defense budgets - the case of Lithuania

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