Does tourism predict macroeconomic performance in Pacific Island countries?

Paresh Kumar Narayan, Susan Sunila Sharma, Deepa Bannigidadmath

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine whether tourism predicts macroeconomic variables in Pacific Island countries (PICs), namely, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, PNG, Vanuatu, Samoa, and Tonga. We form seven panels of PICs - one full panel of six countries and six panels where, one-by-one, each country is excluded from the panel. We apply the Westerlund and Narayan (2012a) panel regression framework, where the null hypothesis is that visitor arrivals do not predict macroeconomic variables, which we proxy with 11 indicators, for panels of countries. We find that visitor arrivals consistently predict exports and money supply, and to a lesser extent, exchange rates and GDP.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)780-786
Number of pages7
JournalEconomic Modelling
Volume33
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • GDP
  • Macroeconomic variables
  • Money supply
  • Panel data
  • Predictive regression model
  • Tourism

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