The issue of security and safety i s a fundamental condition for stable economic trends. Military expenditure can be a very powerful tool for a rapid economic growth. The paper examines the long-run relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in the selected Balkan countries,...

Military expenditure is considered an influential factor in gross domestic product. This study investigates the relationship between military expenditure and gross domestic product in Bangladesh. Time series data, econometric techniques, and some robustness tests are used in this analysis. The...

We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the period 1951-2011. By using various measures of government ideology, the results do not show any effect. The exception is an ideology measure based on the Comparative Manifesto...