Modelling country risk and uncertainty in small island tourism economies

Tourism Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-183

  Hoti, Suhejla ^a   McAleer, Michael ^a   Shareef, Riaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

GARCH; GJR; Regularity conditions; Risk ratings; Risk returns; Small island economies

Indexed keywords

MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL ISLAND STATE; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 21444444878     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/0000000054183504     Document Type: Article

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