Tourism and growth in Singapore: New extension from bounds test to level relationships and conditional granger causality tests

Singapore Economic Review

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-453

  Katircioǧlu, Salih Turan ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

bounds test; conditional causality; economic growth; Singapore; Tourism led growth

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ERROR CORRECTION; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 79960655150     PISSN: 02175908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217590811004365     Document Type: Article

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