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Causal interactions among tourism, foreign direct investment, domestic credits, and economic growth: evidence from selected Mediterranean countries

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This study explores the nexus between tourism and economic growth in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea while controlling for foreign direct investment and domestic credits as additional variables within a multivariate panel framework. Empirical evidence is based on annual data from 1995 to 2016 for a panel of 14 selected countries around the Mediterranean Sea region. The findings from the bootstrap panel cointegration test proposed by Westerlund (2007) confirm the long-run equilibrium relationship among the variables under inspection. Subsequently, the Panel Pooled Mean Group Autoregressive Distributed model (PMG-ARDL) estimations suggest positively significant relationships between tourism and economic growth both in short-term, and long-term periods. Thus, this study joins the group of studies that lend support to the tourism-led growth hypothesis. This result was further substantiated by the results of the Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) causality analysis, as feedback causality was observed between tourism and economic growth, while unidirectional causality was seen from foreign direct investment to economic growth. That is in support of the foreign direct investment-driven economic growth hypothesis. Strikingly, no causal relationship was observed between domestic credits and economic growth.

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  1. The results of Pesaran CSD normal, Breusch and Pesaran all corroborate with the Pesaran (2007) CSD results. See Appendix for details.

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  1. Faculty of Tourism and Department of Accounting & Taxation Applications, School of Computing and Technology, Eastern Mediterranean University, P.O. Box 99628, North Cyprus Via Mersin, 10, Famagusta, Turkey

    Ayhan Tecel

  2. Department of Banking and Finance, Eastern Mediterranean University, P.O. Box 99628, North Cyprus, Via Mersin, 10, Famagusta, Turkey

    Salih Katircioğlu

  3. Department of Economics, Eastern Mediterranean University, P.O. Box 99628, North Cyprus, Via Mersin, 10, Famagusta, Turkey

    Elham Taheri

  4. Faculty of Economics Administrative and Social sciences, Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Festus Victor Bekun

  5. Department of Accounting, Analysis and Audit School of Economics and Management, South Ural State University, 76, Lenin Aven., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454080

    Festus Victor Bekun

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Tecel, A., Katircioğlu, S., Taheri, E. et al. Causal interactions among tourism, foreign direct investment, domestic credits, and economic growth: evidence from selected Mediterranean countries. Port Econ J 19, 195–212 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10258-020-00181-5

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