Do foreign visitors reward post-communist countries? A panel evidence for tourism-growth nexus.

Salahodjaev, Raufhon and Safarova, Nilufar (2015): Do foreign visitors reward post-communist countries? A panel evidence for tourism-growth nexus.

Abstract

Using cross-country panel data for 23 post-communist countries, we provide novel empirical evidence that tourism exerts a positive and significant effect on economic growth after controlling for conventional determinants in the growth equation. The system GMM results suggest that per-capita tourism receipts increase by 10 percent, the per-capita growth rate increases by 1.36% points, ceteris paribus. The results remain robust under various estimation methods.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: tourism, economic growth, post-communist, GMM, PCSE.
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

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