The arms trade: winners and losers
用标准经济模型分析国际军火市场的供需与价格演变，并探讨欧盟成员国是否需要统一武器出口管制制度，适合关注军火贸易政策的经济学和政治学研究者。
Summary The arms trade Winners and losers The arms trade is highly controversial and raises difficult policy issues. The controversies tend to concentrate on the moral, military and political dimensions of arms exports decisions. Quite a lot of light can be shed on this murky market by asking basic economic questions and using standard economic models. We begin with a structured economic description of the evolution of the international arms market in terms of the factors that influence demand and supply and thus prices and quantities. Then we review the policy issues faced by EU members: in particular, whether a common control regime is needed to harmonize their regulation of arms exports. To address these policy issues, we present some models of the market that we have developed and examine their implications for the interesting interactions that characterize the trade.— Paul Levine and Ron Smith