Tourism and Economic Growth in Sri Lanka: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

Title

Tourism and Economic Growth in Sri Lanka: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

Creator

Srinivasan P.; Kumar P.K.S.; Ganesh L.

Description

The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of tourism on economic growth in Sri Lanka through the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. The analysis was carried out for the period from 1969 to 2009. By and large, our analysis reveals that tourism has a positive impact on economic growth in Sri Lanka both in the short-run and long-run. 2012, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). All rights reserved.

Source

Environment and Urbanization Asia, Vol-3, No. 2, pp. 397-405.

Date

2012-01-01

Subject

ARDL-ECM; ARDL-UECM; cointegration; economic growth; Sri Lanka; tourism; unit root

Coverage

Srinivasan P., Department of Economics, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Kumar P.K.S., Department of Economics, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Ganesh L., Institute of Management, Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 9754253

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1177/0975425312473234

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