Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195318 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] UTMS Journal of Economics [ISSN:] 1857-6982 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] University of Tourism and Management [Place:] Skopje [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 319-328
Publisher: 
University of Tourism and Management, Skopje
Abstract: 
The relevance of tourism revenue to their respected GDP is comparable in Croatia and the Czech Republic. Aside from having comparable levels of tourism dependency in respect to the percentage of tourism revenue in GDP, there are very few significant structural similarities between the economies of Croatia and that of the Czech Republic. The simple geographic difference of a land-locked versus a maritime economy does not seem to be the most dominant feature in differentiating these two economies. Rather, through Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) and variance decompositions, this paper examines the relationship between the economic growth, public debt-to-GDP ratio, tourism revenue and the unemployment rate by implementing a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) framework. Through this framework, this paper detects structural differences between the economies of Croatia and the Czech Republic. Most notably, this paper concludes that tourism revenue is unable to combat the difficulties presented by macroeconomic imbalances in Croatia. It further concludes that Croatia should strive towards a more diversified economy and attempt to contain the difficulties it faces regarding its public debt and budget deficit.
Subjects: 
VAR
Impulse Response Functions (IRFs)
macroeconomic imbalances
public debt-to-GDP ratio
sustainable growth
JEL: 
H63
Z32
Document Type: 
Article

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