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

Chia-I Pan, Tsangyao Chang and Yemane Wolde-Rufael

Defence and Peace Economics, 2015, vol. 26, issue 4, 443-456

Abstract: This study revisits the causal relationship between military spending and economic growth in 10 Middle East countries via a panel causality analysis that accounts for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity across countries. Our results indicate unidirectional causality from military spending to growth for Turkey; one-way causality from economic growth to military spending for Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Syria; bidirectional causality for Israel; and no causality in either direction for Jordan, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. The empirical evidence does not provide consistent results regarding the causal relationship between defense expenditure and economic growth in these countries.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2014.891356

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