Military Spending and Economic Growth in the Middle East Countries: Bootstrap Panel Causality Test

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 443-456

  Pan, Chia I ^a   Chang, Tsangyao ^a   Wolde Rufael, Yemane ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Independent Researcher   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependency and heterogeneity; Economic growth; Middle East countries; Military Spending; Panel causality test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930929193     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2014.891356     Document Type: Article

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