Military expenditure and economic growth across different groups: A dynamic panel Granger-causality approach

Economic Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2416-2423

  Chang, Hsin Chen ^a   Huang, Bwo Nung ^b   Yang, Chin Wei ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data; Economic growth; GMM; Military expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961101585     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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