Financial versus human resources in the Greek-Turkish arms race: A forecasting investigation using artificial neural networks

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 403-426

  Andreou, A S ^a   Zombanakis, G A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b BANK OF GREECE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Defence expenditure; Greek military debt; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000762060     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10430710008404956     Document Type: Article

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