MILITARY EXPENDITURES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE CASE OF EU COUNTRIES

• Authors: Daněk Tomáš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This contribution examines the relationship between military expenditures and economic growth in 28 EU countries between 1993 and 2014. The paper aims to verify the first pioneering hypothesis which claims that there is a negative relationship between military expenditures and economic growth in relatively poorer countries and a positive relationship in relatively richer countries. A cluster analysis is used to divide the nations into individual groups. The Feder-Ram model and multiple regression analysis with modified variables are than estimated for all groups based on the cluster analysis. The findings of the regression analysis mainly verified the hypothesis and showed a significant positive relationship between defence spending and economic growth in the case of more resource- abundant countries and a significant negative relationship in the case of more resource-constrained countries. However, the Feder-Ram model showed statistically in significant effects of military expenditures on economic growth.

Keywords

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MILITARY EXPENDITURES; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GDP; EU

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 853 – 868

Contributors

author

Daněk Tomáš

• University of Economics in Prague, Faculty of Finance and Accounting, W. Churchill sq. 4, 130 67 Prague, Czech Republic