The impact of defense and non-defense public spending on growth in Asia and Latin America

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-224

  Murdoch, James C ^a   Chung Ron, P I ^a   Sandler, Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Error components models; Feder Ram model; Growth and defense spending; Latin America; Panel data; Peace dividend; Public spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042912016     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10430719708404876     Document Type: Article

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