Non-linearity in the defence expenditure - Economic growth relationship in Taiwan

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 537-555

  Lee, Chien Chiang ^a   Chen, Sheng Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Defence expenditure; Economic growth; Non linearity; Threshold regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048937640     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690601055762     Document Type: Article

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