Endogenous Growth and Defense Expenditures: A New Explanation of the Benoit Hypothesis

Ching-chong Lai, Jhy-yuan Shieh and Wen-Ya Chang

Defence and Peace Economics, 2002, vol. 13, issue 3, 179-186

Abstract: This paper develops an endogenous growth model to examine the linkage between military expenditures and economic growth. We adopt the modeling strategy where both the supply side and the demand side effects of national defense are taken into considerations. Our result finds that a rise in military spending tends to stimulate the sustained growth rate, confirming Benoit's famous empirical findings.

Keywords: Benoit Hypothesis; Endogenous Growth; Defense Expenditures; Elasticity Of Intertemporal Substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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