Does tourism development promote economic growth in transition countries? A panel data analysis

Economic Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 226-232

  Chou, Ming Che ^a  

^a SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dependency; Economic growth; Heterogeneity; Panel causality test; Tourism spending; Transition countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877335646     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.04.024     Document Type: Article

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