Military expenditure, economic growth and structural instability: a case study of South Africa

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 619-633

  Aye, Goodness C ^a   Balcilar, Mehmet ^b   Dunne, John P ^c   Gupta, Rangan ^a   van Eyden, Reneé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Economic growth; Military spending; Time varying causality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911996732     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2014.886432     Document Type: Article

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