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Military Expenditures, External Threats and Economic Growth

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  • Ari Francisco de Araujo Junior

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  • Cláudio D. Shikida

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Do military expenditures have impact on growth? Aizenman & Glick (2006) found that this impact is positive in countries with good governance, where the external threat is significant. Our article shows that their results suffer from three limitations: (i) they are not robust to the most recent main database used (ii) small changes in the time period of some variables change their results, and (iii) the authors' econometric specification is not adequate to their hypothesis. Using a 2SLS specification we reconfirm the authors'' hypothesis.

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  • Ari Francisco de Araujo Junior & Cláudio D. Shikida, 2008. "Military Expenditures, External Threats and Economic Growth," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 15(16), pages 1-7.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-08o10019
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    1. Joshua Aizenman & Reuven Glick, 2006. "Military expenditure, threats, and growth," The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 129-155.
    2. Alchian, Armen A. & Demsetz, Harold, 1973. "The Property Right Paradigm," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 33(01), pages 16-27, March.
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    1. Albert J.F. Yang & William N. Trumbull & Chin Wei Yang & Bwo‐Nung Huang, 2011. "On The Relationship Between Military Expenditure, Threat, And Economic Growth: A Nonlinear Approach," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(4), pages 449-457, April.
    2. repec:taf:defpea:v:28:y:2017:i:1:p:65-90 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Muhammed Umar Aminu & Muhammed Umar Aminu & Abu Sufian Abu Bakar, 2016. "The Interactional Impact of Defense Expenditure and Arms Importation on Economic Growth in Nigeria: An Autoregressive Approach," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 6(2), pages 538-543.

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    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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