Revisiting the Defense-Growth nexus in European countries

Tsangyao Chang, Chien-Chiang Lee () and Hsiao-Ping Chu

Defence and Peace Economics, 2015, vol. 26, issue 3, 341-356

Abstract: This study revisits the long run and dynamic causal linkages between defense spending and economic growth in 15 selected European countries for the period 1988-2010 by utilizing recent developments in non-stationary panel data analysis. To this end, the series properties of per capita defense spending, per capita real capita stocks, and per capita real GDP are investigated by the panel unit root tests with and without breaks that support evidence on unit root. The panel cointegration tests with and without breaks are also subsequently employed to investigate whether there exists a long-run equilibrium relationship between these three variables. Finally, our causality analysis from panel vector error-correction model suggests that there is a feedback relation between real capital stock and real GDP in both short and long run, a one-way Granger causality running from real GDP to defense spending in both short and long run, and defense spending only Granger causes real capital stock in the long run.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2013.832556

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