Defense spending and economic growth across the Taiwan straits: A threshold regression model

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-57

  Lai, Chung Nang ^a   Huang, Bwo Nung ^b   Yang, Chin Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms race; Defense spending; Economic growth; Multivariate threshold models

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844257578     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1024269052000323542     Document Type: Article

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