Is the tourism sector supportive of economic growth? Empirical evidence on Romanian tourism

Tourism Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-132

  Surugiu, Camelia ^a,b   Surugiu, Marius Razvan ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN MICROTECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cointegration; Economic growth; Romania; VECM

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ERROR CORRECTION; GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; REAL EXCHANGE RATE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84877281103     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0196     Document Type: Article

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