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Table 7 Causality test

From: The effect of military spending on economic growth in MENA: evidence from method of moments quantile regression

Variable

Panel VAR Granger causality test

Dumitrescu & Hurlin [26] Granger non-causality test

MIL versus RGDP

1.726 (0.422)

3.946* (0.096)

RGDP versus MIL

11.631*** (0.003)

12.823*** (0.000)

MIL_GDP versus RGDP

4.035** (0.045)

0.622 (0.644)

RGDP versus MIL_GDP

0.167 (0.683)

2.104 (0.536)

MIL versus RGDPPCP

3.583 (0.167)

4.296 (0.108)

RGDPPCP versus MIL

13.197*** (0.001)

7.292 ** (0.020)

MIL_GDP versus RGDPPCP

1.702 (0.192)

5.948** (0.016)

RGDPPCP versus MIL_GDP

0.099 (0.753)

1.629 (0.592)

  1. ***, ** and * represent 1%, 5% and 10%, respectively. Note: RGDP, RGDPPCP, MIL and MIL_GDP denote real gross domestic product (M’USD), real gross domestic product per capita (M’USD), military expenditure (M’USD) and military burden, respectively