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https://doi.org/10.37741/t.71.1.10
Tourism and FDI-Growth Nexus in Upper-Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Static and Dynamic Panel Analyses
Özgür Bayram Soylu
orcid.org/0000-0002-5030-5924
; Department of Economics, Kocaeli University, Turkey
Bosede Ngozi Adeleye
orcid.org/0000-0002-1274-714X
; Department of Accountancy, Finance and Economics, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Fatih Okur
orcid.org/0000-0002-4686-4563
; Department of Economics, Bayburt University, Turkey
Murat Emikönel
; Department of Economics, Kocaeli University, Turkey
Sažetak
This paper examines the role of tourism in foreign direct investment-growth relations in upper-middle-income countries. We deploy static and dynamic panel analysis to evaluate how tourism indicators influence the impact of FDI net inflows on growth using unbalanced panel data on 29 upper-middle-income countries from 2010 to 2019. The tourism indicators are receipts, arrivals, and expenditures. The results from static and dynamic analyses indicate that for the most part (1) FDI and tourism exert asymmetric effects on growth, (2) tourism indicators reduce the negative effect of FDI on growth, (4) trade openness is a positive and significant predictor of growth, and (5) domestic credit negatively contributes to growth. Deductively, results evidence that tourism indicators are critical drivers of economic growth in upper-middle-income countries. Overall, tourism receipts show the largest influence on FDI to spur the most appreciable impact on growth. Despite this, the fact that tourism indicators cannot eliminate the destructive impact of FDI on economic growth shows that tourism development policies should be based on a greener and more sustainable ground, taking into account the effects of the coronavirus.
Ključne riječi
tourism; foreign direct investment; economic growth
Hrčak ID:
294016
URI
Datum izdavanja:
20.2.2023.
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