Is there a Greek-Turkish arms race? Some further empirical results from causality tests

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 321-328

  Kollias, Christos ^a   Paleologou, Suzanna Maria ^b  

^a TEI of Larissa ^*  (Greece)

^b Ministry of Economy and Finance Greece   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arms race; Causality; Greece; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036023186     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690212357     Document Type: Article

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