The forecasting ability of a cointegrated VAR system of the UK tourism demand for France, Spain and Portugal

Empirical Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-308

  De Mello, Maria M ^a   Nell, Kevin S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Equal forecasting accuracy tests; Tourism demand

Indexed keywords

ALMOST IDEAL DEMAND SYSTEM; TOURISM; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 24044453715     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-005-0241-0     Document Type: Article

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