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Defense Strategy Transition and Economic Growth Under External Predation

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  • Taoxiong Liu
  • Bihua Zhou

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This paper develops a growth model for a country under a Hobbesian environment with international conflicts where national defense is the only way to prevent external predation. Different defense strategies result in different growth paths. The long-run growth path is determined by the equilibrium of a dynamic game with three players: the external predator, the government, and the family. The equilibrium growth path can have different phases: submissive equilibrium, tolerant equilibrium, and complete protection equilibrium. Sustainable growth will endogenously induce an adjustment of the defense strategies. As the economy keeps growing, complete protection will eventually be preferred. The optimal growth path prefers to compress the length of the transitional period between incomplete protection and complete protection. Some interesting features of the transitional dynamics are exhibited by a control model with discontinuity.

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  • Taoxiong Liu & Bihua Zhou, 2015. "Defense Strategy Transition and Economic Growth Under External Predation," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 289-309, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:26:y:2015:i:3:p:289-309
    DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2013.763636
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    1. Liu, Taoxiong & Liu, Zhuohao, 2022. "A growth model with endogenous technological revolutions and cycles," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).

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