Box-cox estimation of international tourism demand for Nicaragua

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 447-459

  Vanegas, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox estimation; Elasticity values; Nicaragua; Origin markets; Seemingly unrelated regression (SUR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882276363     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354210X12864727453269     Document Type: Article

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