Kiel-CEPR European Defence Economics Initiative

Europe’s security is at risk. Recent events have made it clear that Europe will have to rely more on itself in matters of defence and security. Time is running short. Europe will have to quickly build the capabilities needed to defend itself and step up support for Ukraine’s fight for freedom. As before at critical junctures for war and peace, economists have an important role to play. Pressing questions concern the financing of joint European projects, a rapid increase of defence-industrial capacity, as well as developing high-tech defence technologies.

The joint CEPR-Kiel European Defence Economics Initiative aims to build a network to support European policy makers at this critical juncture with economic advice. With this workshop, we want to build the intellectual infrastructure to address Europe’s security challenges and discuss forms of future cooperation.

We welcome papers, policy work, reports and drafts on a range of topics related to the economics of European defence. We invite macroeconomists, game theorists, political economists, defence economists, industrial economists, economic historians, and others.
 
We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in:

• Industrial policy in the defence industry
• Defence finance and joint financing of European defence projects
• Macroeconomic effects of defence investment
• Game theory of conflict, peace negotiations and arms reduction
• Political economy of alliances and security free-riding
• Determinants and costs of wars
• Historical insights on reconstruction
• Design of effective procurement processes