Defense spending and economic growth in Turkey: A linear and non-linear Granger causality approach

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-148

  Karagianni, Stella ^a   Pempetzoglu, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Defense spending; Economic growth; Non linear Granger causality; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749103320     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690801923173     Document Type: Article

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