This column examines the macroeconomic effects of defense spending shocks, with a focus on emerging and developing economies. Using cyclically adjusted defense shocks and a local projections framework for a global sample over the period 1990 to 2023, we estimate that defense shocks yield modest but persistent effects on output, with multipliers of around 0.7% […]
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