Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74300 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 118.2006
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion as a potential source of economic growth of the country. However, the understanding of the relationship between exports and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the relationship between tourism and economic growth, considering tourism as a non-traditional export few studies have been published to date. This paper has the objective to assess if exports and tourism have really promoted growth by means of the export-led growth hypothesis (ELGH) and the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH). The cases under analysis are Spain and Italy, two of the most important countries worldwide regarding the expansion of tourism. Cointegration techniques and the multivariate Granger causality test are applied. Results reveal that exports cause economic growth in the long-term for both countries, whilst only for Spain tourism appears as a factor which influences economic growth in the lon-run.
Subjects: 
Economic Growth
Exports
Tourism
Cointegration
Multivariate Granger Causality
Spain
Italy
JEL: 
L83
C32
O49
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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