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The effect of military expenditure on stock market development: panel evidence from system GMM estimates

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  • Sakiru Adebola Solarin
  • Pritish Kumar Sahu

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This paper examines the impact of military expenditure on stock market development in 36 countries over the period 1989-2010. Within a panel framework, the system GMM estimates is utilised to test the relationship with an array of control variables. We augment the traditional measure of military expenditure-military burden, with a newly constructed comprehensive index - Global Militarisation Index. Overall, the results show that military spending has a negative and significant effect on stock market performance in the selected countries.

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  • Sakiru Adebola Solarin & Pritish Kumar Sahu, 2015. "The effect of military expenditure on stock market development: panel evidence from system GMM estimates," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 271-287, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:26:y:2015:i:3:p:271-287
    DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2014.898384
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