The Impact of Defense Spending on GDP:

 The Case of North America

 

by

 

Dale Bremmer

Professor of Economics

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

 

and

 

Randy Kesselring

Professor of Economics

Department of Economics and Finance

Arkansas State University

 

April 2007

 

Presented During the “Topics in Economics” Session

at the 49th Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association

Hyatt Regency Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Friday, April 13,  2007,  8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.


 The Impact of Defense Spending on Economic Growth: The Case of North America

I.          Introduction

            With the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, some saw the need for decreased military spending by the United States and they sought evidence of the peace dividend.  But in 2007, six years after 9-11, the U.S. is engaged in an ongoing five-year war in Iraq and a six-year conflict in Afghanistan.  Given the current strain on the deployment of the U.S. armed forces, concerns about the readiness of the forces and the possible inability to engage in armed conflict on two separate fronts, some argue that an increase in U.S. defense spending is needed.  Debates about whether a military draft should be reinstituted have begun.  Given the increased fiscal pressure of defense spending on a fragile federal government budget and a fragile economy, a more current analysis of the impact of defense spending on GDP growth should be worthwhile.

            This paper is a pilot study which examines whether increases in military spending have a positive or negative impact on a country’s GDP.  The study focuses on the three North American economies:  Canada, Mexico and the United States.  While many others have written on this issue, the approach used in this paper is somewhat unique in that a reduced-form “St. Louis” type model is used to measure the impact of the central government’s economic policy tools on the growth rate of GDP.  Three policy tools are included in the model.  Two different fiscal policy tools are examined.   First, the model includes central government expenditures (the standard Keynesian policy tool).  However, the model also includes a separate category of central government expenditures—military spending.  Finally, the role of monetary policy is captured by including money supply changes in the model.  The data set for each of the three countries includes 43 annual observations between 1963 and 2005.  The “St. Louis” model was estimated using current macroeconomic time-series techniques including VAR models, unit root tests, and tests for cointegration.  The impact of a change in policy is examined using impulse response functions from the VAR models.

            The results produced by the statistical models are asymmetric.  Increased military spending in Canada and Mexico leads to increases in GDP while increased military spending in the United States decreases GDP.  This result was confirmed with two different statistical tests: pairwise Granger-causality tests and the behavior of impulse response functions generated by each country’s VAR model.  These results hint of a threshold effect where the impact of defense spending on the economy depends on the size of the country’s military spending relative to total central government expenditures and GDP.  An increase in nonmilitary spending leads to rising GDP in the United States and Mexico, but leads to falling GDP in Canada.  The impulse response functions indicate that innovations in the money supply are associated with rising GDP in Canada and the U.S., but do not affect GDP in Mexico.

            The rest of the paper is organized as follows.  Following this introduction, the second section of the paper provides a brief review of the past literature regarding the impact of defense spending on a country’s economy.  A description of the empirical model and the data is found in the third section of the paper.  This section also contains a discussion of the unit root tests and an analysis of the pairwise Ganger-causality tests.  The empirical results and the impulse response functions are analyzed in the fourth section, while the final section of the paper offers a critique of the results and some ideas for future research.

II.                Literature Review

Previous papers on the impact of a nation’s defense spending on its economy have concentrated on four areas.  Some researchers have stressed the relationship between military spending and private investment.  Others (especially development economists) have investigated the effect that defense spending has on employment.  Still others have investigated an economy’s demand for defense expenditures.  Finally, the most common approach has been to relate military spending directly to the nation’s ability to produce output (GDP).[1]  The literature review that follows has been divided into these four areas. 

The impact of defense spending on private investment

Several studies have concluded that, in the case of developed nations, investment and military expenditures are substitutes (Kennedy 1983, p. 198).  Smith (1977, 1978, 1980, and 1983) argues that households are very resistant to cuts in private consumption and public welfare.  Given an exchange rate and a level of capacity utilization, the remainder of the nation’s output is divided between defense spending and investment.  The result is that a higher level of military spending leads to a lower level of investment.  In a study of 15 countries between 1960 and 1970, Smith found that investment spending and defense spending were negatively correlated (-0.73).  Lindgren (1984) points out that most studies are in agreement on the negative correlation between defense spending and investment spending for industrialized, market economies.

More recently, a study by Laopodis (2001) produced substantially different results.  Using Granger causality tests on a time-series of data (1960-1997) for Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain no significant relationship (either positive or negative) was found between military spending and gross private domestic investment.  To further investigate this relationship, Laopodis tested for cointegration of a number of variables relating to gross private domestic investment and estimated the associated error correction model.  The results again indicated that military spending had no significant effect on investment.

The impact of defense spending on employment

Regarding the impact of military expenditures on employment, the Marxist critique of the 1960s was that defense spending was a necessary, albeit wasteful, policy to stabilize and expand capitalism (Baran and Sweezy 1968).  They argued that by raising the level of defense spending a country could solve the problems of under consumption and the unemployment associated with it.  Furthermore, capitalism would resort to such spending in an effort to reduce class conflict.  The hypothesis that increased military spending indirectly creates employment in the armaments industry and directly creates more jobs in the armed forces does not necessarily need to rely on the tenants of Marxist economics for support.  Indeed, one of the primary concerns regarding disarmament at the end of the Cold War was its hypothesized relationship to rising unemployment.

In spite of this intuitive relationship, Chester (1978), Smith (1978), and deGrasse (1983) could not find a statistically significant relationship between military expenditures and unemployment.  In his survey article of the literature, Lindgren concludes that “the relationship between military expenditures and employment seems too complex to capture by correlation or regression methods” (Lindgren, 1984, p.381).  Recent studies confirm these earlier findings.  Dunne and Smith (1990) find no Granger causality between the share of defense spending and the unemployment rate in nine of 11 countries in the OECD.  Using data from 1962 to 1988, Paul (1996) tested various economic hypotheses about the relationship between unemployment and defense and non-defense spending in 18 OECD countries.  However, Paul was unable to find a uniform relationship between these variables across the various nations.

  An interesting approach to this estimation problem was provided by Hooker and Knetter (1997).  Using a panel data model for the U.S, they found that defense procurement spending which does vary from state to state had a significant impact on statewide employment.  Both the time series and the cross sections were accounted for with fixed effects.  Additional evidence was produced that the effects of defense spending on employment are decidedly nonlinear with larger changes in defense spending produce significantly greater changes in employment.

Several other research efforts have been focused on specific countries.  Wing (1991), using input-output analysis, found that defense spending had a significant impact on employment in Indonesia.  Yildirim and Sezgin (2003) found that increases in defense spending tended to affect employment negatively in Turkey.  In a recent paper by Huang and Kao (2005), the relationship between defense spending and employment in Taiwan was investigated.  These two used an unusual cointegration technique to demonstrate that defense spending damages employment in the short run but benefits it in the long run.

The Demand for Defense Expenditures

            Another interesting facet of research on military expenditures is the question of demand determination.  Early researchers in this area tended to estimate demand specifications for defense spending that were closely related to standard household demand theory.  Hartley and Sandler (1990) provide a good review of these studies.  The results seem to indicate that defense spending is a normal good (positively related to GDP) and that, being a public good, there is significant free riding.

            Sandler and Murdoch (1991) add elements of game theory to the formulation of demand models for defense expenditure.  Murdoch et al (1991) test what is referred to as a median voter demand model against an oligarchy model for members of NATO and get mixed results.  Hanson et al. (1990), Hilton and Vu (1991) and Conybeare et al. (1994) all test empirical models of defense demand concentrating on NATO countries.  While all of these authors use slightly different approaches they tend to get similar results regarding income or GDP (defense provision is a normal good) and produce mixed results about free riding.  They also tend to agree that degree of external threat is an important determinant of demand.

            A recent paper by Solomon (2005) uses a kind of cointegration technique (autoregressive distributed lag approach) to investigate the demand for military spending in Canada.  The results indicated that the most important determinant of military spending in Canada was European NATO spending.  Interestingly, GDP was found to be insignificant.

The Impact of Defense Spending On GDP

Given the long-accepted, theoretical direct relationship between investment and economic growth, if defense spending has a negative impact on investment, then it would seem reasonable that defense spending would have an adverse impact on economic growth.  This was exactly the findings of two studies published in the seventies, Szymanski (1973) and Lee (1973).  Some studies attribute the negative effect of defense spending on economic growth to reduced investment.[2]  Another study argues that defense spending restricts export growth and economic growth because military expenditures compete for the same resources used in the production of exports.[3]

However, other studies were unable to find any stable relationship between military spending and economic growth.[4]  Chester (1978) found that military spending and economic growth were positively related.  A direct relationship between defense spending and economic growth was found by Ahmed (1986) in a study of the UK.  Weede (1983) found evidence that supported his hypothesis that higher rates of participation in the armed services lead to more economic growth.  His argument was that service in the military leads to human capital formation that is beneficial to economic growth.  In his 1984 review essay that synthesizes past articles analyzing of the impact of military spending on the economies of industrialized nations, Lindgren (1984, p. 380) writes that the studies of the impact of defense spending on economic growth are not as conclusive as those of investment.  Nevertheless, the overwhelming conclusion seems to be that military spending is not positively associated with economic growth but that additional research is needed to clarify the issue. In terms of past modeling attempts, Lindgren (1984, p. 376) notes that many studies used statistical techniques whose methods varied and whose steps were not clearly described.  These articles usually lacked the development of a formal theoretical model on which to base econometric estimations.  In examining the relationship between defense spending and economic growth, Blackaby and Ohlson (1982, p. 291) noted that instead of “trying to provide a reasonable statistical structure” most of these past attempts were “armchair theorists who conduct statistical exercises.” 

Perhaps because of the above criticisms, models based on seemingly sounder theoretical development have come into common use by researchers of this relationship.  One of these models is generally referred to as the Feder-Ram model because it was adapted by Biswas and Ram (1986) from an export model developed by Feder (1983).  Cuaresma and Reitschuler (2003) used a version of this model for the U.S. economy.  They found that at low levels of spending (below an estimated threshold) defense spending has a positive impact on growth, but at high levels the impact is either negative or insignificant.  Yildirim et al. (2005) use a Feder-Ram derivation to find that military spending has a positive overall effect on the economies of the Middle East.

A number of recent papers have attacked the problem through application of a type of Granger causality estimation.  Because they use Granger causality these papers generally limit their analysis to examination of only two variables, defense spending and GDP. Dakurah et al. (2001) examined 62 less developed countries (LDCs) with data from 1975 to 1995.  A type of two-way Granger causality was estimated for all of the countries.  Only 23 countries exhibited unidirectional causality, and in 16 of those 23 the relationship between defense spending and GDP was positive.  For the remaining 7, the relationship was negative.  But, for most of the countries, there was no relationship.  Karagol and Palaz (2004) applied a similar technique to Turkey for the years 1955 to 2000.  However, they used impulse response functions to indicate long-run causality.  The result was that defense expenditures had a negative impact on GDP in Turkey.  Using a similar technique, Kollias et al. (2004) found that defense spending had a positive impact on GDP in Cyprus.  Their reasoning for this outcome was that the increase in defense spending led to a greater feeling of security in Cyprus and, therefore, a better climate for economic growth.

Atesoglu (2002) formulates a multivariable reduced-form Keynesian model patterned after Romer (2000).  Using cointegration estimation techniques for the years 1947 to 2000, Atesoglu finds a positive long-run relationship between military spending and output for the U.S. economy.   Galvin (2003) also uses a multiequation, multivariable approach to investigate the problem.  Using a model similar to that of Deger (1986) three equations are postulated, one each for growth, saving and defense expenditure.  This model is somewhat unusual in that the data used for estimation is strictly cross-sectional (64 developing countries).  The author uses OLS, 2SLS and 3SLS to derive overall estimates and separate estimates for middle and lower income countries.  The results indicate that military spending has a negative impact on growth for the middle income countries but is insignificant for the low income countries.  Klein (2004) also used a Deger type model to estimate the effects of military spending in Peru.  After some unit root testing and difficulties with estimation results from the differenced system, adjustments were made and the three equation model was estimated with OLS, 2SLS and 3SLS.  The resulting estimates reveal a negative relationship between defense spending and economic growth in Peru.  Finally, Dunne et al. (2005) provides a very good overview of the various models used to estimate the relationship between defense spending and growth.

Obviously, the results from many different models estimated in several different ways have been mixed.  Consequently, the search is still on for a model and an estimation technique that will provide consistent results.  Our attempt begins by looking at the entire process in a slightly different way.  Economists are always concerned about policy making and, therefore, policy variables.  Governments have at their disposal several tools with which to affect the macro economy.  These tools are usually divided into two classes: monetary and fiscal policy tools.  Obviously, control over military spending is a “fiscal” policy tool.  So, our approach is to use military spending within a model that was originally set forth to distinguish the effectiveness of these tools—the St. Louis model.

III.       The Model, the Data, Unit Root Tests, and Granger-Causality Tests

            To determine the relative impacts of defense spending, other central government spending and monetary policy on a country’s output, a “St. Louis” or reduced-form expenditure model is used.  Let equal the annual percentage change in nominal GDP that was observed in year t.  To distinguish between the change in defense spending and other central government expenditures, let  denotes the annual percentage change in nominal military expenditures in year t, while equals the percentage change in nominal nonmilitary expenditures in year t.  Finally, to control for the differences between fiscal and monetary policy, is the annual percentage change in the nominal money supply in year t.

Specifying the VAR model

            The vector autoregression (VAR) model is a seemingly unrelated system of four regressions where each of the current dependent variables is a function of lagged dependent variables.  The VAR model below assumes that each regression has the same lag structure or

                                          (1)

                                        (2)

                                         (3)

and

                                      (4)

On the right-hand side of each equation, T lags of each dependent variable are used as explanatory variables.  Also notice that the right-had sides of Equations (1)-(4) contain no other exogenous explanatory variables.

The data

            To initially test the impact of military spending on the growth rate of GDP, this paper used a pilot case of the three North American countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States.  This sample has two G7 countries, Canada and the United States, the only superpower.  The results of these two developed countries can be compared with Mexico, the sample’s only developing country.  Annual data for all four variables were obtained for each of the three countries for 43 years, from 1963 to 2005.  The data can be found in Tables A1, A2, and A3 of the appendix.[5]

            Table 1 shows that the military expenditures in the United States, as a percentage of central government expenditures, fell from a high of 49.15 percent in 1963 to a low of 15.70 percent in 1999.  The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq increased this percentage to 19.84% in 2005.  In the case of Canada, military expenditures as a percentage of central government expenditures fell from 24.03 percent in 1963 to 5.86 percent in 2005.  While this percentage fluctuates over time, the general trend for Canada was for this percentage was to fall over the data sample.  Military spending as a percentage of central government expenditures was 10 percent in Mexico during 1965.  While this percentage fell over time , it hit 1.5 percent in 1982, increased to 4.7 percent in 1994, and was 2.41 percent in 2005.

            Between 1963 and 2005, military expenditures as a percentage of GDP fell for each of the three countries.  As Table 1 shows, almost during the height of the Vietnam War, military spending was 9.09 percent of GDP in the United States in 1967.  After 9-11, military spending as a percentage of GDP increased from 3.09 percent in 2001 to 4.07 percent in 2005.  Military spending in Mexico is always a smaller percentage of Mexican GDP.  Military spending in Mexico increased from 0.72 percent of GDP in 1963 to 1.18 percent of GDP in 1987 and then it fell to 0.39 percent in 2005.  Military spending as a percentage of GDP also fell in Canada.  The percentage fell from 3.56 percent in 1963.  It flirted with being over two percent in the early Seventies and the mid Eighties, but it was 1.12 percent in 2005.

The unit root tests

            Regressions with time series data run the risk of obtaining spurious results.  This occurs when regressions estimated with one or more nonstationary data series result in statistically significant results even though there may be no true underlying relationship.  To avoid spurious results, augmented Dickey-Fuller tests are performed on each data series to determine whether the data exhibit unit roots and are nonstationary.  The results of the augmented Dickey-Fuller tests are reported in Table 2.  The four data series are annual percentage changes in GDP, military spending, other expenditures of the central government, and the money supply.  Table 2 lists the results of the unit root tests on these series for Canada, Mexico and the United States using both levels data and first differences of the data.

            In the case of Canada, for each of the four variables, the augmented Dickey-Fuller tests reject the null hypothesis of unit roots at either the one or five percent level.  This result is not surprising as the variables are percentage changes which are essentially functions of the first differences.  The Canadian series are stationary and the regressions can be safely estimated in level form and cointegration test aren’t necessary.

            According to the results in Table 2, the percentage change in Mexican GDP and the percentage change in Mexican military spending are nonstationary in levels, but stationary in first differences.  However, in the case of the percentage change in other spending by the Mexican central government, the null hypothesis of a zero root is rejected at the one percent level while the null hypothesis that the percentage change in the Mexican money supply has a zero root can be rejected at the five percent level.  The unit root tests indicate that the first differences of the percentage changes in Mexican money supply and other central government expenditures are stationary.  Because statistical data indicate that level data of at least two of the four series data exhibit nonstationarity, the Mexican data will have to be estimated in first differences and cointegration test have to be performed.

            Finally, level forms of the United States data appear to be stationary.  The null hypothesis of a zero root is rejected at the one percent level in three of the four series.  However, the percentage change in American military expenditures appears to be stationary only at the ten percent level.  As was the case with Canadian data, the United States data can be estimated in levels form without checking for cointegration.

Pairwise Granger-causality tests

            Pairwise Granger-causality test are reported in Table 3.  These statistical tests investigate whether changes in GDP causes changes in military spending or does changes in military spending causes changes in GDP.  For each of the three countries, these tests involved estimating two simple linear regressions, one having the percentage change in GDP as the dependent variable and the other having the percentage change in military spending as the dependent variable.  The explanatory variables of these regressions are lagged values of the percentage changes in military spending and GDP.  The number of lags was determined by picking that model specification that minimized the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC).

            In the case of Canada and Mexico, Granger-causality tests indicate unidirectional causality in that changes in military spending affect changes in GDP but not the other way around.  The Canadian result was found at only the ten percent level while the Mexican result was obtained at the one percent level. 

However, the opposite result was found for the United States.  In this case, Granger-causality tests indicate that changes in GDP affect military spending but changes in military spending do not affect GDP.  The conclusion of unilateral causality from GDP to military spending was found at the five percent level.  Because a different result was found for the United States other than Mexico or Canada, this suggest that military spending may have a threshold effect in that the impact of military spending on a country’s economy may depend on the relative size of that country’s defense spending.

IV.       Estimation Results of the VAR Model and Impulse Response Functions

            The VAR models are estimated for Canada, Mexico, and the United States.  The estimation results for Canada are reported in Table 4, the cointegration tests and the estimation results for Mexico are reported in Tables 5 and 6, and Table 7 lists the estimation results for the United States.  The appropriate lag length for each country was determined using standard lag exclusion tests.

Estimation of the Canadian, Mexican and United States VAR models

            Tests indicate that only one lag was needed in the Canadian VAR model.  The main advantage of using the VAR framework is its a-theoretic, reduced-form framework that doesn’t require careful specification of a structural model and its comparative advantage in forecasting.  Given the reduced-form structure of the model, interpreting the signs and the statistical significance and the sign of an individual coefficient becomes more problematic.  Since the Canadian data was stationary, the results in Table 4 were obtained using levels data.  The results in Table 4 indicate that only one of the four regression models have a significant F-statistic.  Estimation results indicate that null hypothesis that all the slope coefficients are simultaneously zero is rejected at the five percent level for the regression model with the GDP growth rate as a dependent variable.

            Since the unit root tests indicated that Mexican data was nonstationary, cointegration tests were performed and their results are reported in Table 5.  Using the techniques developed by Johansen, both the trace test and the maximum-eigenvalue test indicate the presence of at most one cointegrating equation with an intercept present.[6]  Having determined the presence of one cointegrating equation and its underlying structure, an error-corrected VAR model was estimated and the results are listed in Table 6.  All four of the regressions reported in Table 6 have significant F-tests implying that none of the models have slope coefficients that are simultaneously zero.

            The estimation results for the United States are reported in Table 7.  Recall that the United States data series were stationary; therefore, the estimation results in Table 7 were obtained with data in level form.  Three of the four regressions have statistically significant F-tests.  Only the regression where nonmilitary spending as the dependent variable fails to reject the null hypothesis that all the slope coefficients are simultaneously equal to zero.

The impulse response functions

            The impulse functions of the three VAR models are shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3.  The Canadian results are shown in Figure 1, the Mexican results are depicted in Figure 2 and Figure 3 shows the United States results.  Each figure shows what will happen to the percentage change in GDP given an innovation to either military spending, nonmilitary spending or the money supply.  The shock was always an initial, one standard deviation to the residual, orthogonalizing the impulses by the Cholesky factor and adjusting for the degrees of freedom.   Each figure shows the accumulated response of the growth rate in GDP.

            The response of the growth rate of Canadian GDP to a shock in the other variables is shown in Figure 1.  The estimation results indicate that positive innovations to either the growth rate in military spending and money supply lead to increases in the growth rate of GDP.  However, if the Canadian federal government increases the growth rate of other spending Canadian GDP falls.

            According to the information in Figure 2, positive innovations to government expenditures, either military or nonmilitary, lead to increases in Mexican GDP.  But, Mexican monetary policy almost appears neutral as a positive innovation in the nominal money supply has little long-run effect on the growth rate of Mexican GDP.

            While Canadian and Mexican military spending stimulate GDP growth in their respective countries, Figure 3 shows that an increase in the growth rate of military expenditures in the United States leads to a fall in GDP.  However, positive innovations to either nonmilitary U.S. government spending or the U.S. money supply leads to increases in U.S. GDP.  Like the pairwise Granger-causality tests discussed in the previous section, the conflicting evidence from the impulse response function may again show evidence of a threshold effect where the relatively large military spending of the U.S. may have a different impact on the economy than a country were military spending is a relatively smaller portion of the economy.

V.        Conclusion

            Both pairwise Granger-causality tests and impulse response functions from VAR models show an asymmetric response of the growth rate in GDP of the North American countries to a change in military spending.  Increased military spending increases nominal GDP in Canada and Mexico.  But increased military spending in the United States reduces the growth in nominal GDP.  Evidence from Mexico and the United States indicates that nominal GDP would grow faster if the federal government increased the growth rate of nonmilitary spending.  Increasing the growth rate of nominal money supply lead to higher growth rates in nominal GDP in Canada and the United States but had little long-run impact on Mexico GDP.

            The results of the paper foreshadow a threshold effect in that military spending in the United States had an opposite effect on GDP growth than in increases in military spending in Canada and Mexico.  Since the U.S. spends a relatively larger percentage of its government expenditures and GDP on defense, the existence of a threshold effect will have to be examined with a larger sample of countries.

            The use of a “St. Louis” type model in this pilot study shows the promise of future work with this methodology.  The “St. Louis” type model avoids constructing a detailed, precise structural model and the reduced-form model measures the impact of a country’s policy decisions on the nation’s GDP.

            Future work will extend this analysis to more countries.  The countries will differ in economic development and the size of military spending.  Depending on data availability, a tax variable should be added to control for another tool of fiscal policy. Data sets with quarterly data will also be analyzed, but quarterly data on defense spending by developing countries is difficult to obtain.

            Economics is the “Dismal Science” and the forecast of the model in this paper is bleak.  Military spending in the United States will continue to rise with the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the U.S. as the only superpower with the military to police conflicts deemed politically appropriate.  The events of 9-11, the advent of the war on terror, and the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan promise to put upward pressure on military spending.  This paper indicates that increased military spending occurs with a tradeoff of less growth in GDP.

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Table 1:  Military Expenditures as a Percent of Central Government Expenditures and GDP:

Canada, Mexico, and the United States, 1963 - 2005

Military Expenditures as a Percent

of Central Government Expenditures

 

Military Expenditures as a Percent

of GDP

Year

Canada

Mexico

United States

 

Year

Canada

Mexico

United States

1963

24.03

9.86

49.15

 

1963

3.56

0.72

8.47

1964

22.90

9.64

46.22

 

1964

3.44

0.72

7.72

1965

22.60

10.00

44.05

 

1965

3.16

0.71

7.20

1966

22.11

9.93

46.87

 

1966

3.11

0.72

8.07

1967

18.70

8.10

49.40

 

1967

3.11

0.68

9.09

1968

16.30

8.10

45.20

 

1968

3.10

0.69

8.87

1969

11.60

6.60

44.10

 

1969

2.62

0.70

8.27

1970

12.90

6.80

39.80

 

1970

2.39

0.70

7.50

1971

11.60

7.60

35.20

 

1971

2.23

0.73

6.64

1972

10.50

4.90

33.40

 

1972

2.03

0.99

6.27

1973

9.70

4.40

30.10

 

1973

1.83

0.88

5.67

1974

8.50

4.30

30.30

 

1974

1.68

0.43

5.73

1975

7.70

4.40

26.20

 

1975

1.57

0.56

5.55

1976

8.20

3.90

23.60

 

1976

1.34

0.54

4.99

1977

8.70

3.90

23.80

 

1977

1.62

0.44

4.97

1978

8.70

2.80

23.00

 

1978

1.92

0.36

4.76

1979

8.20

2.70

23.30

 

1979

1.83

0.33

4.77

1980

8.50

2.10

23.10

 

1980

1.92

0.23

5.16

1981

7.80

2.30

23.60

 

1981

1.84

0.32

5.43

1982

8.10

1.50

25.00

 

1982

2.14

0.48

6.03

1983

7.90

2.00

25.50

 

1983

1.78

0.69

6.16

1984

8.20

2.70

26.40

 

1984

1.87

0.79

7.14

1985

8.60

2.60

25.70

 

1985

2.02

0.58

6.12

1986

9.20

2.30

27.10

 

1986

2.07

0.86

6.29

1987

9.30

2.30

27.20

 

1987

1.93

1.18

6.08

1988

9.30

2.10

26.20

 

1988

1.70

0.69

5.74

1989

7.10

2.50

25.50

 

1989

1.31

0.65

5.54

1990

7.00

2.60

23.50

 

1990

1.33

0.54

5.27

1991

6.30

4.30

19.60

 

1991

1.26

0.52

4.67

1992

6.20

4.60

21.10

 

1992

1.33

0.51

4.81

1993

6.90

4.00

19.90

 

1993

1.53

0.52

4.48

1994

6.70

4.70

18.80

 

1994

1.51

0.63

4.07

1995

6.40

3.90

17.40

 

1995

1.38

0.81

3.77

1996

6.00

3.60

16.50

 

1996

1.23

0.67

3.47

1997

5.80

3.60

16.30

 

1997

1.12

0.62

3.32

1998

5.90

3.80

15.80

 

1998

1.28

0.60

3.13

1999

5.90

3.74

15.70

 

1999

1.26

0.56

3.03

2000

5.77

3.34

16.18

 

2000

1.15

0.52

3.07

2001

6.10

3.49

15.88

 

2001

1.17

0.54

3.09

2002

6.09

3.09

16.98

 

2002

1.15

0.50

3.41

2003

6.04

2.84

18.44

 

2003

1.15

0.46

3.79

2004

5.93

2.55

19.50

 

2004

1.14

0.41

3.97

2005

5.86

2.41

19.84

 

2005

1.12

0.39

4.07


Table 2

Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) Unit Root Test

 

 

 

Regression Assumptions

Statistic

Critical Values

 

Data Type

Data

Lags

Constant

Trend

Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growth Rate in Nominal GDP

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

Yes

4.18**

4.20

3.52

3.19

Growth Rate in Military Spending

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

No

4.98*

3.60

2.94

2.61

Growth Rate in Non-Military Spending

Levels

′66-′05

1

Yes

Yes

5.60*

4.21

3.53

3.19

Growth Rate in Money Supply

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

No

5.60*

3.60

2.94

2.61

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growth Rate in Nominal GDP

Levels

′67-′05

2

No

No

0.98

2.63

1.95

1.61

Growth Rate in Nominal GDP

1st Differences

′67-′05

1

No

No

6.89*

2.63

1.95

1.61

Growth Rate in Military Spending

Levels

′67-′05

2

No

No

1.58

2.63

1.95

1.61

Growth Rate in Military Spending

1st Differences

′65-′05

1

No

No

7.88*

2.63

1.95

1.61

Growth Rate in Non-Military Spending

Levels

′66-′05

1

Yes

No

4.48*

4.20

3.52

3.19

Growth Rate in Non-Military Spending

1st Differences

′68-′05

2

Yes

No

6.17*

2.63

1.95

1.61

Growth Rate in Money Supply

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

No

3.42**

3.60

2.94

2.61

Growth Rate in Money Supply

1st Differences

′65-′05

1

No

No

7.32*

2.63

1.95

1.61

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growth Rate in Nominal GDP

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

Yes

4.48*

4.20

3.52

3.19

Growth Rate in Military Spending

Levels

′66-′05

1

Yes

No

2.89***

3.61

2.94

2.61

Growth Rate in Non-Military Spending

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

Yes

6.92*

4.20

3.52

3.19

Growth Rate in Money Supply

Levels

′65-′05

0

Yes

No

4.09*

3.60

2.94

2.61

 

*, **, and *** indicate the null hypothesis of a unit root is rejected at 1%, 5% and 10% level, respectively.  The lag lengths in  the ADF regressions were determined by choosing the model with the largest AIC.

 


Table 3

Granger Causality Tests: Growth Rates in Nominal Military Spending and GDP

 

F-Statistic

 

Canada

(1966-2005)

Mexico

(1966-2005)

United States

(1967-2005)

Null Hypothesis

2 lags

2 lags

3 lags

Growth Rate in Military  Spending Does Not

 Granger Cause Growth Rate in Nominal GDP

2.857***

12.574*

0.297

Growth Rate in Nominal GDP Does Not

Granger Cause Growth Rate in Military Spending

0.020

0.417

3.310**

 

*, **, and *** indicate the null hypothesis of no Granger causality is rejected at 1%, 5% and 10% level, respectively.  The lag length used in each VAR was determined by choosing the model with the largest AIC.

 

Table 4

VAR Model for Canada: Annual Data, 1965 – 2005

 

Dependent Variables

 

 

Independent Variables

GDP

Growth

Rate

Military

Spending

Growth Rate

Non-Military

Spending

Growth Rate

Money

Supply

Growth Rate

Intercept

11.264***

(5.955)

6.227

(4.235)

14.776*

(4.436)

5.711***

(3.505)

GDP Growth Rate-1

0.703*

(0.122)

-0.025

(0.087)

-0.150

(0.091)

0.142

(0.072)

Military Spending Growth Rate-1

0.576**

(0.265)

0.270

(0.188)

0.262

(0.197)

0.106

(0.156)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-1

-0.383

(0.247)

-0.092

(0.176)

0.012

(0.184)

-0.078

(0.146)

Money Supply Growth Rate-1

0.004

(0.269)

-0.027

(0.192)

-0.179

(0.201)

0.063

(0.159)

 

 

 

 

 

 R-squared

 0.570

 0.058

 0.159

 0.142

 F-statistic

 11.916

 0.551

 1.704

 1.485

 

Standard errors are in parentheses.  *, **, and *** indicate the null hypothesis that the coefficient is equal to zero is rejected at the 1, 5, or 10 percent level, respectively, using a 1-tail t test.  indicates the null hypothesis that all the slope coefficients are simultaneous equal to zero is rejected using an F test at the 5 percent level.

 

Table 5

Johansen Cointegration Test - - Mexico

Null Hypothesis

Eigenvalue

Trace Test

Max-Eigenvalue Test

Lags

H0: At Most 1 Cointegtrating Equation

0.376

39.300*

18.313*

1

 

* indicates one cointegrating vector at the 1% level.


Table 6

Vector Error Correction Model for Mexico: Annual Data, 1968 – 2005

Estimates for the One Cointegrating Equation

GDP Growth

Rate-1

Military Spending

Growth Rate-1

Non-Military Spending

Growth Rate-1

Money Supply

Growth Rate-1

 

Intercept

1.000

-0.238**

(0.118)

0.447*

(0.110)

-1.338*

(0.089)

-0.566

(2.470)

 

 

 

 

 

Error-Corrected VAR Models

 

Dependent Variables

(First Differences)

 

Independent Variables

(First Differences)

GDP

Growth

Rate

Military

Spending

Growth Rate

Non-Military

Spending

Growth Rate

Money

Supply

Growth Rate

The Cointegrating Equation

 0.076

(0.209)

 0.336

(0.614)

-0.640

(0.800)

 1.271*

(0.162)

GDP Growth Rate-1

-0.227

(0.314)

 0.280

(0.920)

 1.247

(1.199)

-0.812*

(0.242)

GDP Growth Rate-2

-0.051

(0.298)

 0.659

(0.875)

 2.232***

(1.140)

-0.734*

(0.230)

GDP Growth Rate-3

-0.057

(0.264)

-0.977

(0.774)

-0.194

(1.009)

-0.762*

(0.204)

Military Spending Growth Rate-1

 0.076

(0.118)

-0.759**

(0.345)

 0.188

(0.450)

 0.276*

(0.091)

Military Spending Growth Rate-2

-0.211

(0.148)

-0.903**

(0.434)

-0.486

(0.565)

-0.010

(0.114)

Military Spending Growth Rate-3

-0.113

(0.122)

-0.137

(0.357)

 0.101

(0.465)

-0.138

(0.094)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-1

 0.126

(0.097)

 0.333

(0.285)

-0.304

(0.372)

-0.405*

(0.075)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-2

 0.108

(0.108)

 0.031

(0.318)

-0.539

(0.414)

-0.253*

(0.084)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-3

 0.070

(0.078)

-0.102

(0.228)

-0.451

(0.297)

-0.090

(0.060)

Money Supply Growth Rate-1

 0.095

(0.180)

-0.318

(0.526)

-1.296***

(0.685)

 0.212

(0.138)

Money Supply Growth Rate-2

-0.008

(0.167)

-0.209

(0.491)

-0.954

(0.640)

 0.198

(0.129)

Money Supply Growth Rate-3

-0.032

(0.139)

-0.305

(0.407)

-1.049***

(0.530)

 0.148

(0.107)

 

 

 

 

 

R2

0.622

0.507

0.553

0.863

F-Statistic

3.425

2.140

2.572

13.135

 

 

 

 

 

 

Standard errors are in parentheses.  *, **, and *** indicate the null hypothesis that the coefficient is equal to zero is rejected at the 1, 5, or 10 percent level, respectively, using a 1-tail t test.  indicates the null hypothesis that all the slope coefficients are simultaneous equal to zero is rejected using an F test at the 5 percent level


Table 7

VAR Model for the United States: Annual Data, 1967 – 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dependent Variables

 

 

Independent Variables

GDP

Growth

Rate

Military

Spending

Growth Rate

Non-Military

Spending

Growth Rate

Money

Supply

Growth Rate

Intercept

2.1066

(1.2960)

-4.3115

(3.9598)

-1.6134

(4.1165)

0.6017

(2.3595)

GDP Growth Rate-1

0.2321

(0.2132)

0.5636

(0.6513)

-0.1963

(0.6771)

-0.4158

(0.3881)

GDP Growth Rate-2

0.0098

(0.2187)

-0.9731

(0.6681)

-0.0636

(0.6946)

-0.0069

(0.3981)

GDP Growth Rate-3

0.1877

(0.1901)

2.2460*

(0.5807)

1.3036**

(0.6037)

0.2156

(0.3460)

Military Spending Growth Rate-1

-0.0003

(0.0494)

0.3065***

(0.1509)

0.1225

(0.1569)

0.0934

(0.0899)

Military Spending Growth Rate-2

0.0203

(0.0494)

0.2469

(0.1509)

0.0243

(0.1569)

0.0760

(0.0899)

Military Spending Growth Rate-3

-0.0670

(0.0507)

-0.1129

(0.1550)

-0.1781

(0.1611)

-0.1165

(0.0923)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-1

0.0725

(0.0618)

-0.4641**

(0.1887)

-0.0721

(0.1962)

0.0585

(0.1125)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-2

0.0165

(0.0657)

0.1397

(0.2009)

0.2587

(0.2088)

0.4182*

(0.1197)

Non-Military Spending Growth Rate-3

0.1092

(0.0771)

-0.0053

(0.2354)

0.2503

(0.2448)

-0.0539

(0.1403)

Money Supply Growth Rate-1

0.0504

(0.1097)

-0.1557

(0.3352)

-0.3919

(0.3485)

0.3690***

(0.1997)

Money Supply Growth Rate-2

0.0405

(0.0930)

-0.2768

(0.2843)

-0.0484

(0.2955)

0.0294

(0.1694)

Money Supply Growth Rate-3

-0.0132

(0.0896)

-0.2232

(0.2739)

0.2174

(0.2847)

-0.0547

(0.1632)

 

 

 

 

 

R2

0.5480

0.5564

0.3883

0.5314

F-statistic

2.6266

2.7172

1.3754

2.4571

 

 

 

 

 

 

Standard errors are in parentheses.  *, **, and *** indicate the null hypothesis that the coefficient is equal to zero is rejected at the 1, 5, or 10 percent level, respectively, using a 1-tail t test.  indicates the null hypothesis that all the slope coefficients are simultaneous equal to zero is rejected using an F test at the 5 percent level.


Figure 1: Canadian Impulse Response Functions

 

 

Figure 2: Mexican Impulse Response Function

 

 

 

Figure 3: United States Impulse Response Function

 

 


Appendix

Table A1: Canada Data

 (in billions of Canadian dollars)

Year

Military

Spending

NonMilitary

Spending

Money

Supply

GDP

 

Year

Military

Spending

NonMilitary

Spending

Money

Supply

GDP

1963

1.708

7.110

7.392

47.961

 

1985

9.789

113.827

76.380

485.714

1964

1.809

7.900

7.872

52.549

 

1986

10.610

115.329

87.284

512.541

1965

1.833

8.110

8.395

57.930

 

1987

10.780

115.917

92.557

558.949

1966

2.015

9.110

8.933

64.818

 

1988

10.424

112.087

98.433

613.094

1967

2.168

11.595

9.497

69.698

 

1989

8.584

120.900

104.969

657.728

1968

2.361

14.483

10.632

76.131

 

1990

9.042

129.178

106.000

679.921

1969

2.197

18.936

10.852

83.825

 

1991

8.650

137.305

110.424

685.367

1970

2.158

16.727

11.096

90.179

 

1992

9.295

149.922

117.408

700.480

1971

2.198

18.951

12.862

98.429

 

1993

11.146

161.539

124.448

727.184

1972

2.235

21.288

14.760

109.913

 

1994

11.649

173.864

131.553

770.873

1973

2.356

24.291

16.491

128.956

 

1995

11.185

174.772

143.629

810.426

1974

2.582

30.377

17.655

154.038

 

1996

10.294

171.570

160.836

836.864

1975

2.732

35.482

21.572

173.621

 

1997

9.900

170.690

174.282

882.733

1976

2.678

32.659

21.455

199.994

 

1998

11.734

198.884

183.995

914.973

1977

3.586

41.218

23.901

220.973

 

1999

12.361

209.513

203.488

982.441

1978

4.708

54.110

25.953

244.877

 

2000

12.326

213.480

221.319

1075.570

1979

5.127

62.528

26.842

279.577

 

2001

12.972

212.610

326.757

1107.460

1980

6.052

71.199

30.683

314.390

 

2002

13.332

218.895

347.829

1154.950

1981

6.630

85.000

37.669

360.471

 

2003

13.952

231.003

365.912

1214.600

1982

8.115

100.191

41.275

379.859

 

2004

14.749

248.534

395.706

1290.180

1983

7.313

92.572

46.411

411.386

 

2005

15.379

262.369

416.351

1368.730

1984

8.399

102.421

56.727

449.582

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Table A2: Mexico Data

 (in billions of nominal pesos)

Year

Military

Spending

NonMilitary

Spending

Money

Supply

GDP

 

Year

Military

Spending

NonMilitary

Spending

Money

Supply

GDP

1963

0.0014

0.0142

0.0235

0.1948

 

1985

0.2731

10.5021

3.4270

47.1675

1964

0.0016

0.0166

0.0275

0.2214

 

1986

0.6748

29.3385

5.6220

78.7870

1965

0.0018

0.0180

0.0291

0.2520

 

1987

2.2878

99.4686

12.4360

193.1620

1966

0.0020

0.0204

0.0323

0.2828

 

1988

2.8868

137.4690

20.5860

416.3050

1967

0.0021

0.0258

0.0348

0.3063

 

1989

3.5445

141.7807

28.6570

548.8580

1968

0.0024

0.0290

0.0404

0.3391

 

1990

4.0220

154.6930

46.9730

738.8980

1969

0.0026

0.0400

0.0459

0.3749

 

1991

4.9200

114.4196

106.3730

949.1480

1970

0.0031

0.0458

0.0506

0.4443

 

1992

5.7565

125.1416

122.0800

1125.3300

1971

0.0036

0.0469

0.0545

0.4901

 

1993

6.5116

162.7911

143.9000

1256.2000

1972

0.0056

0.1143

0.0648

0.5647

 

1994

8.8766

188.8631

145.1150

1420.1600

1973

0.0061

0.1386

0.0800

0.6909

 

1995

14.8931

381.8732

148.5340

1837.0200

1974

0.0039

0.0910

0.0992

0.8997

 

1996

17.0228

472.8547

206.0700

2525.5800

1975

0.0061

0.1395

0.1211

1.1001

 

1997

19.7962

549.8931

267.2110

3174.2800

1976

0.0074

0.1899

0.1571

1.3710

 

1998

22.9315

603.4595

323.9120

3846.3500

1977

0.0081

0.2072

0.1984

1.8493

 

1999

25.8131

689.9210

407.6010

4594.7200

1978

0.0084

0.3017

0.2629

2.3374

 

2000

28.3345

848.5020

465.4850

5491.7100

1979

0.0103

0.3801

0.3539

3.0675

 

2001

31.2980

897.0490

526.3460

5809.6900

1980

0.0105

0.4984

0.4633

4.4700

 

2002

31.2239

1009.7300

600.8390

6263.1400

1981

0.0198

0.8623

0.6140

6.1368

 

2003

31.7300

1118.0300

684.6900

6891.9900

1982

0.0466

3.1059

0.9810

9.7695

 

2004

31.8210

1248.1100

743.2210

7709.1000

1983

0.1230

6.1488

1.3850

17.8823

 

2005

32.6380

1356.4200

865.8910

8374.3500

1984

0.2326

8.6152

2.2580

29.4020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Table A3: United States Data

 (in billions of nominal dollars)

Year

Military

Spending

NonMilitary

Spending

Money

Supply

GDP

 

Year

Military

Spending

NonMilitary

Spending

Money

Supply

GDP

1963

52.30

106.40

168.740

617.750

 

1985

258.20

1004.67

691.352

4220.250

1964

51.21

110.80

177.539

663.625

 

1986

280.90

1036.53

814.087

4462.820

1965

51.80

117.60

184.447

719.125

 

1987

288.00

1058.82

815.898

4739.470

1966

63.60

135.70

187.931

787.800

 

1988

293.00

1118.32

855.445

5103.750

1967

75.70

153.24

202.161

832.575

 

1989

304.00

1192.16

863.436

5484.350

1968

80.73

178.61

219.015

909.950

 

1990

306.00

1302.13

907.119

5803.070

1969

81.44

184.68

226.926

984.600

 

1991

280.00

1428.57

985.804

5995.920

1970

77.85

195.61

241.016

1038.520

 

1992

305.00

1445.50

1104.030

6337.750

1971

74.86

212.68

257.462

1127.100

 

1993

298.00

1497.49

1210.250

6657.400

1972

77.64

232.45

280.832

1238.770

 

1994

288.00

1531.91

1206.610

7072.230

1973

78.36

260.33

297.690

1382.730

 

1995

279.00

1603.45

1179.210

7397.650

1974

85.91

283.53

302.956

1499.980

 

1996

271.00

1642.42

1172.300

7816.820

1975

90.95

347.14

323.747

1638.330

 

1997

276.00

1693.25

1178.600

8304.330

1976

91.01

385.64

335.639

1825.280

 

1998

274.00

1734.18

1187.170

8746.980

1977

100.90

423.95

369.722

2030.920

 

1999

281.00

1789.81

1281.510

9268.430

1978

109.20

474.78

408.052

2294.700

 

2000

301.70

1864.40

1211.510

9816.970

1979

122.30

524.89

446.184

2563.300

 

2001

312.74

1969.50

1204.600

10127.900

1980

144.00

623.38

464.535

2789.520

 

2002

356.72

2101.10

1215.960

10469.600

1981

169.90

719.92

484.822

3128.430

 

2003

415.22

2252.10

1283.750

10960.700

1982

196.40

785.60

522.694

3255.020

 

2004

464.68

2383.00

1356.000

11712.500

1983

218.00

854.90

562.481

3536.670

 

2005

507.09

2555.90

1343.800

12455.800

1984

280.90

1064.02

609.688

3933.170

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



[1]For a recent study of the relationship between military expenditures and economic growth in developing nations, see Chowdhury (1991).

 

[2]See Smith (1977 and 1978), Smith and Georgiou (1983) and Cappelen, et al (1984).

[3]See Rotschild (1973).

[4]See Nardinelli and Ackerman (1976), Faini et al. (1984), and de Grasse (1983).

[5] Data was obtained from various issues of World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers, published by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.  This source has nominal and real military expenditures and central government expenditures for the years between 1963 and 1999.  Data on military expenditures between 2000 and 2005 was obtained from the military expenditure data base of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (see www.sipri.org).  GDP and money supply data was obtained from the International Monetary Fund as was data on central government expenditures between 200 and 2005 (see www.imf.org).

[6] The specification of the cointegrating equation was determined by choosing that model that minimized the AIC.