Josselin Droff, a researcher at the Chair in Defence Economics, publishes in the journal Defence and Peace Economics an article entitled: « The organization of the Defense support system: an economic geography perspective« . This article was written in collaboration with Catherine Baumont and Amaury Barra (LEDi, University of Burgundy). It is part of a special issue of the journal, coordinated by Julien Malizard, researcher at the Defence Economics Chair.
Against a backdrop of budget constraint strong and rising cost from Maintenance in Operational Condition (MCO) for defence equipment, the article discusses the geographical reorganisation of MCO. It proposes a formalised analysis framework in which a public planner organises the maintenance of defence equipment. The discussion is based on a balance of forces between spatial agglomeration and dispersion. On the one hand economies of scale This reduces support costs and encourages the concentration of MCO activities. But on the other hand, taking account of the spatial constraint leads to dispersion linked to transport costs and operational social cost (CSO).
This trade-off between economies of scale and distance-related costs, which underpins the spatial economy, finds a new dimension here. original field of application in the literature in Defence economics through the case of defence equipment MCO.
For more details on this subject, see the Newsletter N°4 the Chair in Defence Economics or the doctoral thesis in economics from Josselin Droff.
