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Antonios Adamopoulos, Hellenic Open University of Greece and University of Western Macedonia, Gravena, Greece

A System Equation Model for Tourism and Economic Growth

Volume 74 - Issue 3, August 2021
(pp. 311-334)
JEL classification: C22, O11
Keywords: Economic Growth, Tourism Growth, Spain

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the interrelation between economic growth and tourism in Spain, in the period 1995-2017, by making use of a system equation model. Two-stage least squares method is used in order to examine both the direct and indirect relations between tourism and economic growth taking into account the positive effect of investments on tourism. The empirical results indicates that tourism growth has a positive and direct effect on economic growth for Spain for the examined period 1995-2017. The empirical results of Monte Carlo simulation method indicated that the system equation model is very well simulated, since the simulated values are close to actual values of examined variables.

 

 

 


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