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A Statistical Modeling for the Economic Interpretation of Centrality in the International Arms Export

세계 무기 수출 중심성에 관한 통계적 분석과 경제적 의미

  • Park, Joonsoo (Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, Soongsil University) ;
  • Kim, Sung-Chul (Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, Soongsil University)
  • Received : 2020.01.06
  • Accepted : 2020.02.07
  • Published : 2020.02.28
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Abstract

We propose the statistical modeling and empirical results that can be utilized to identify and interpret the structural factors of international arms exports in recent years. The building blocks of research comprise the following questions; which would be the explanatory variables for the changing trend of international arms exports, whether the statistical significance can be verified on those variables and how those are interpreted for the future policy making purpose. We use the dataset of top 40 countries from SIPRI's Arms Transfers Database and analyze several regression models which consist of explanatory variables derived from research hypotheses. The most noticeable result is that the national fiscal reserve is shown to have consistent influence on the arms exports changes. UN security council members' group also has dominant power to make a formation of arms exports market block. Furthermore, gross domestic product and net exports volume in the national economy would seem to be related to changes of international arms exports in post-2000 period as well.

본 연구는 세계 무기 수출 시장의 구조적인 변화 요인을 식별하기 위한 통계적 모형을 설계하고 실증 분석 결과와 경제적 함의를 제시하고자 한다. 무기 수출의 변화 양상을 설명할 수 있는 변인은 무엇인가, 그러한 변화는 통계적으로 유의한가, 변화의 특성은 어떻게 해석될 수 있는지를 중심으로 연구 질문을 삼고 분석의 틀을 설계하였다. 실증 분석을 위해 SIPRI 데이터베이스에 수록된 무기 수출 상위 40개 국가의 거래량을 분석 대상으로 삼았다. 그리고 연구 모형을 설정하기 위한 가설을 제시하고 가설로부터 도출된 변수들의 조합에 따라 여러 회귀 모형을 구성하여 통계적 유의성을 검증하였다. 분석 결과에서 국가 보유고 변수는 무기 수출 시장의 변화와 지속적인 관계를 맺고 있는 변수로서 특징적인 의미를 보여주고 있으며, UN 안보리 상임이사국 그룹은 세계 무기 수출에 집단적인 지배력을 발휘하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 함께 2000년대를 전후로 하여 나타난 변화의 주요 동인은 국내 총생산과 국가 순 수출액과 관련이 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 전반적으로 이런 요인들이 세계 무기 수출의 흐름과 방향을 좌우해왔던 것으로 평가되며 향후에도 무기 수출 시장의 구조에 영향을 주는 변수가 될 것으로 전망된다.

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