Assessing the Economic Impact of Tourism A Computable General Equilibrium Modelling Approach /

• Main Authors: Meng, Samuel (Author), Siriwardana, Mahinda (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Economic theory.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.; Asian Economics.

This book employs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model – a widely used economic model which uses actual data to provide economic analysis and policy assessment – and applies it to economic data on Singapore’s tourism industry. The authors set out to demonstrate how a novice modeller can acqu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Introduction to CGE Modelling
• 2. Useful CGE Modelling Packages
• 3. Application of CGE Modelling on Tourism
• 4. Collecting Background Information for a Tourism CGE Model
• 5. Creating a Tourism CGE Model
• 6. Preparing Database for a Tourism CGE Model
• 7. Model Implementation and Testing
• 8. Interpretation of Results from a Tourism CGE Model
• 9. Frontiers of Tourism CGE Modelling.