Journal
QUALITY & QUANTITY
Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 1193-1207Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-017-0512-9
Keywords
Growth; Military expenditures; Asymmetric panel causality
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This study applies asymmetric causality tests, proposed by Hatemi-J (Asymmetric panel causality tests with an application to the impact of fiscal policy on economic performance in Scandinavia, 2011; Empir Econ 43(1):447-456, 2012), to revisit military expenditures-growth nexus for the world top six defense spenders during the period of 1988-2013. Empirical results indicate that the military expenditure-led hypothesis is supported in China and Japan. However, the growth-led hypothesis is supported in four countries, i.e. France, Russia, Saudi Arabia and US. Except for Saudi Arabia, strong economic growth by no means implies automatic expansion of military expenditures. Defense planning in these countries is a matter of matching their limited resources to attain the suitable priorities. The more threats they perceive, the more spend for defense. This evidence provides useful insight into the behavior of other potential defense suppliers.
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