A non-linear defence-growth nexus? Evidence from the US economy

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-82

  Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo ^a   Reitschuler, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Defense expenditures; Economic growth; Externality effect; Nonlinearity; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842325133     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1024269042000164504     Document Type: Article

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