Military Outlays and Economic Growth: A Nonlinear Disaggregated Analysis for a Developed Economy
Antonis Tsitouras,
Nicholas Tsounis
Abstract:There is a dearth of comprehensive studies examining the compositional and asymmetric effects of defence spending on simultaneous economic growth. This study uses the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) approach to analyse how disaggregated defence spending affects economic growth in Greece in the short and long term. The results hold significant theoretical and practical policy implications. First, military spending boosts economic growth in the short term but hampers it in the long run. Second, … Show more
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