'Guns or butter?' Revisited: Robustness and nonlinearity issues in the defense-growth nexus

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 523-541

  Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo ^a   Reitschuler, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Defense expenditures; Economic growth; Externality effect; Robustness test; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; MODEL; THRESHOLD;

EID: 33747029873     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: 14679485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2006.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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