Does UK defence spending crowd-out UK private sector investment?

James Scott ()

Defence and Peace Economics, 2001, vol. 12, issue 4, 325-336

Abstract: This study tests the hypothesis that defence spending “crowds-out” civil investment. It uses UK data for 1974-96. The results suggest that the crowding-out of investment takes place entirely in the private sector.

Keywords: Crowding-out; Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10430710108404991 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:defpea:v:12:y:2001:i:4:p:325-336

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/GDPE20

DOI: 10.1080/10430710108404991

Access Statistics for this article

Defence and Peace Economics is currently edited by Professor Keith Hartley

More articles in Defence and Peace Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().