Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/9751
Title: On defence expenditure reduction: Balancing between austerity and security in Greece
Authors: Andreou, Andreas S. 
Zombanakis, George A. 
Migiakis, Petros M. 
Major Field of Science: Engineering and Technology
Field Category: Electrical Engineering - Electronic Engineering - Information Engineering
Keywords: Debt;Defence expenditure;Economic growth
Issue Date: 1-Dec-2013
Source: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2013, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 437-458
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Start page: 437
End page: 458
Journal: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 
Abstract: This paper aims at contributing a literature update by assessing the impact of policies focusing on defence-procurement spending on the growth rate of the Greek economy with special reference to the recent crisis environment using artificial neural networks. The main conclusion drawn in the case of the Greek economy in general and during austerity times in particular, is that defence-procurement policy is considerably inflexible concerning both increases and reductions. In fact any further decreases will have a direct impact on the security of the country given the dramatic reduction of the defence budget and the arms race against Turkey. By contrast, any increases will only burden the balance of payments without adding to the GDP, once the bulk of the defence equipment is imported due to the inefficiency of the domestic defence industrial base. A compromise, therefore, between security and austerity would call for a gradual shift towards domestic sources procurement, assuming, of course, considerable upgrading of the Hellenic defence industrial base.
ISSN: 1554-8597
DOI: 10.1515/peps-2013-0030
Rights: © Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
Type: Article
Affiliation : Cyprus University of Technology 
Bank of Greece 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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