Abstract:The aim of this chapter is, first, to assess the impact of changes in tourism spending on economic activity in 16 Mediterranean countries and, second, to examine whether country-specific characteristics affect the size of tourism spending multipliers. Based on aggregate SVAR model estimates, the authors confirmed a statistically significant response of output to the shock in tourism spending in 88% of the analyzed cases at least over the part of the forecast horizon. In 56% of the examined cases, the value of … Show more
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