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Military Expenditure And Economic Growth

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  • Luca Pieroni

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This paper tests the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth by including the impact of the share of military and civilian components of government expenditure in an economic growth model with endogenous technology. In this framework, we empirically consider the hypothesis of a non-linear effect of military expenditure on economic growth. Differences between the costs and benefits of the defence sector has traditionally explained the non-linear relationship suggesting that shocks to insecurity may also be a source of non-linearity as they determine a re-allocative effect within government expenditure. While parametric partial correlations are in line with empirical findings, the robustness of estimations is tested by using a non-parametric approach. The negative relationship between military expenditure and growth in countries with high levels of military burden predicted by theory becomes significant only after including a proxy for re-allocative effects in the growth equation.

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  • Luca Pieroni, 2009. "Military Expenditure And Economic Growth," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(4), pages 327-339.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:20:y:2009:i:4:p:327-339
    DOI: 10.1080/10242690701589876
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