AI Article Synopsis
- The paper explores the relationship between corruption and tourism, proposing an inverted U-shape, where tourism benefits from low corruption but declines with high levels.
- Using a threshold regression model on data from 83 countries between 2001 and 2018, the authors find that a simple linear model is inadequate to explain this relationship.
- Results indicate that while low corruption positively influences tourism demand, high corruption negatively affects it, revealing a complex interaction with other socio-economic factors.
Article Abstract
Unlabelled: The relationship between corruption and tourism has been sporadically examined over the years. According to the existing theory, there is an inverted U relationship which implies that tourism demand initially increases as corruption increases (greasing the wheels) and after a certain threshold level of corruption, tourism demand decreases (sanding the wheels). Empirical studies so far concentrated on capturing the nonlinear relationship, by applying a simple linear model and by including corruption as a quadratic term. In the current paper, the authors revisit the "greasing and sanding the wheels" hypothesis by applying an advanced econometric technique, the threshold regression model, which deals with a key element of model uncertainty, namely parameter heterogeneity. In particular, using a sample of 83 countries from 2001 to 2018, the authors firstly examine if there is a nonlinear relationship between corruption and tourism, and then, they estimate the threshold value of corruption. According to the results, the null hypothesis of a linear model against the alternative of a threshold model with two regimes is strongly rejected. Furthermore, while the effect of corruption on tourism is positive in the low corruption regime and negative in the high corruption regime, a heterogeneous relationship is also found between other politico-socio-economic variables and tourism demand in the low and high corruption regimes.
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00181-021-02193-2.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8819199 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00181-021-02193-2 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Background: Uganda's Health Sector Development Plan (2015/16 through 2019/2020) noted that most referrals for treatment abroad were for organ transplant services that cost the government >5.6 million USD. The government of Uganda has invested in building the capacity for organ donation and transplantation services by training human resources personnel and setting up infrastructure in Kampala, where these services can be accessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssessing the associated medical, legal, and social issues in medical tourism and its implications for Nigeria.
Pan Afr Med J
November 2023
Department of Sociology, Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.
Medical tourism is thriving in Nigeria among both elites and non-elites with over $1 billion annual expenditure on medical tourism. Inadequate healthcare infrastructure caused by economic problems, corruption and low budgetary allocation to the country's health sector, and lack of trust in the country's healthcare systems to handle complex medical procedures have contributed to this trend. This article discusses the trend of medical tourism in Nigeria and the associated medical, legal, and social issues in medical tourism generally, relying on relevant literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Question of the Origins of COVID-19 and the Ends of Science.
J Bioeth Inq
December 2023
New South Wales Health Pathology-ICPMR Westmead, University of Sydney, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia.
Intense public interest in scientific claims about COVID-19, concerning its origins, modes of spread, evolution, and preventive and therapeutic strategies, has focused attention on the values to which scientists are assumed to be committed and the relationship between science and other public discourses. A much discussed claim, which has stimulated several inquiries and generated far-reaching political and economic consequences, has been that SARS-CoV-2 was deliberately engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then, either inadvertently or otherwise, released to the public by a laboratory worker. This has been pursued despite a clear refutation, through comprehensive genomic analysis, of the hypothesis that the virus was deliberately engineered and the failure of detailed investigations to identify any evidence in support of a laboratory leak.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorruption, deforestation, and tourism - Europe case study.
Heliyon
August 2023
Faculty of Agronomy, Craiova University, Craiova, Romania.
Wood represents one of the most used natural resources: from construction to musical instruments, tools, toys, fuel, shipbuilding, and, not to mention, stationery, as it is indispensable for modern society. Europe has important wood resources, but for some countries, their sustainable exploitation is at least questionable. However, other countries prefer to monetize their natural resources by developing a competitive tourism industry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnergy transition in Southeast Asian countries: is there a role for governance at country level?
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
April 2023
School of Finance and Accounting, Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade, Fuzhou, China.
Effective governance is crucial for building environmental policies in order to discourage non-renewable energy use and replace it by renewable resources. Given the significant proportion of fossil fuels in the existing energy mix of ASEAN countries, the transition to renewable energy is critical for emissions to be reduced in this region. As a pioneering one, the present study focuses on the role of governance indicators and economic growth in energy transition in Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries over the period 2000-2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!