Structural breaks, tourism development, and economic growth: Evidence from Taiwan

Macroeconomic Shocks and Malaysian Tourism Industry: Evidence from a Structural VAR Model

Abstract   his study employs a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model to investigate the macroeconomic shocks on Malaysian tourism industry, especially how the economy dynamically responds to oil price shocks, exchange rates, changes in price level, exports, economic growth and tourism income during the study time period from January 2001 to December 2012. The results indicate that oil...

Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis In OIC Countries: Evidence From Panel Unit Root Tests With Heterogeneous Structural Breaks

Structural Changes and the Index of Economic Well-being: Empirical Evidence from the Iranian Economy

It is a well-established empirical fact that economic growth and development brings about major changes in sectorial output, employment, and consumption structure. In the context of economic development discussion, structural change refers to the change in key components of macroeconomic indicators, including national production and expenditure, exports and imports, population, and the sectoria...

Income Convergence toward USA: New Evidences for Latin and South American Countries

Abstract In this paper we test two versions of convergence hypothesis namely deterministic or conditional convergence and stochastic or catching up hypothesis using Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005) stationary test. The results show Latin and South American countries (LSA) catching up process toward the USA failed in 1980s and somewhat in 1990s. But in 2000s most of them could lie in converge...

Structural Change and Business Cycle: Evidence from Taiwan and Korea

This paper explores the feature of business cycle across breaks in Taiwan and Korea. We employed tests devised by Bai and Perron (2003) to show that, for Taiwan’s business cycle, two breaks are present. In contrast, one break is revealed in the economic restructuring process in Korea. Moreover, the feature of business cycle process across breaks is congruent with the real business cycle theory.