TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Is there a Greek-Turkish arms race?: Evidence from cointegration and causality tests
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Kollias, Christos
A1  - Makrydakis, Stelios
SP  - 355
EP  - 379
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
N2  - Greece and Turkey are both members of NATO and are two of the principal players in the Balkan region. Their respective defence burdens (i.e. the share of military expenditure to GDP) are the highest in NATO. Their bilateral relations are marred by serious friction and conflict of interest and have on a number of occasions come close to an armed confrontation. Their strategic interaction and mutual weapons build-up has recently attracted the attention of researchers in the field testing the hypothesis of a Greek-Turkish arms race with conflicting results. This paper, using cointegration and causality tests, finds evidence of a systematic armaments competition between the two countries provided that a defence policy regime shift estimated to occur in 1985 is explicitly taken into consideration. This policy regime change is associated with the stagnation of defence spending in Greece owing to the gradual deterioration of Greek public finances over the last decade.<p /> 
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10430719708404886
ID  - ref1
ER  -