This paper reviews some of the theoretical and econometric issues involved in estimating
growth models that include military spending. While the mainstream growth literature has not …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption
affects economic growth, the level of GDP per capita, investment activity, international trade …

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed
to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods …

The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our
everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter …

Meta analysis is conducted to review 32 empirical studies with 169 estimates of the effect of
military expenditure on economic growth. We formulate four hypotheses to examine the …

This paper examines the impact of military expenditure on economic growth on a large
balanced panel, using an exogenous growth model and dynamic panel data methods for …

We use cross sectional data (1995–2005 yearly averages) for 88 countries to investigate the
nonlinear relationship between tourism development and economic growth when a …

There is a large literature on the relationship between economic growth and defense
spending, but its findings are often contradictory and inconclusive. These results may be …

This paper explores, theoretically and empirically, how governments may use the tradeoff
between social and military expenditure to advance their electoral and partisan objectives …

Applying GMM (Arellano and Bond, 1991) to panel data of 90 countries spanning over 1992–
2006, this paper explores possible relationships between military expenditure and economic …