Modelling the Volatility in Short and Long Haul Japanese Tourist Arrivals to New Zealand and Taiwan

This paper estimates the effects of short and long haul volatility (or risk) in monthly Japanese tourist arrivals to Taiwan and New Zealand, respectively. In order to model appropriately the volatilities of international tourist arrivals, we use symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatility models...

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Authors: Chang, Chia-Lin, McAleer, Michael, Lim, Christine
Format: report
Publication Date:2011
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/49026
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49026
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:C22
G32
L83
Tourist arrivals
Long haul
Short haul
Risk
Conditional volatility
Asymmetric effect
Leverage.
Turismo
Econometría (Economía)
5312.90 Economía Sectorial: Turismo
5302 Econometría
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Summary:This paper estimates the effects of short and long haul volatility (or risk) in monthly Japanese tourist arrivals to Taiwan and New Zealand, respectively. In order to model appropriately the volatilities of international tourist arrivals, we use symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatility models that are commonly used in financial econometrics, namely the GARCH (1,1), GJR (1,1) and EGARCH (1,1) models. The data series are for the period January 1997 to December 2007. The volatility estimates for the monthly growth in Japanese tourists to New Zealand and Taiwan are different, and indicate that the former has an asymmetric effect on risk from positive and negative shocks of equal magnitude, while the latter has no asymmetric effect. Moreover, there is a leverage effect in the monthly growth rate of Japanese tourists to New Zealand, whereby negative shocks increase volatility but positive shocks of similar magnitude decrease volatility. These empirical results seem to be similar to a wide range of financial stock market prices, so that the models used in financial economics, and hence the issues related to risk and leverage effects, are also applicable to international tourism flows.

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