Military and Economic Growth in ASEAN-5 Countries

M.T Hirnissa, Muzafar Shah Habibullah () and A.H. Baharom
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Baharom Abdul Hamid ()

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Abstract: In this study we employ the bounds testing procedure suggested by Pesaran (2001) and dynamic OLS (DOLS) proposed by Stock and Watson (1993) to test the robustness of the causal effect and long-run relationships between military expenditure and economic growth in ASEAN-5 countries from the year 1965 to 2006. Generally, our results suggest that: (1) there are only three (Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore) out of five countries analyzed exhibit long–run relationship between military expenditure and economic growth; (2) While for the case of Singapore, the causality is bidirectional, for Indonesia and Thailand it is unidirectional from military expenditure to economic growth; and (3) For the remaining countries, (Malaysia and Philippines), no meaningful relationship could be detected. The results are robust, producing similar results employing both ARDL and DOLS.

Keywords: military expenditure; economic growth; Asean-5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H56 E00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-08-04
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