In the last decade, Chile has prioritized export promotion policies for the service sector as a result of global dynamism of trade in services and the need for diversification of the Chilean economy towards higher value-added industries. This study evaluates the results and identifies the factors that explain the performance of the public-private partnership implemented in Chile to promote architectural services.

Exchange rate has become a buoyant issue in a globalized world where countries compete with each other to sustain growth and development. Despite the importance of exchange rate in sustaining economic growth and development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, empirical analyses in these countries are quite sparse. Research done in this area focusing on each of these countries remains more fairly limited. Hence, this study aims at investigating the determinants of exchange rate in selected Sub-Saharan African countries using single-country estimation techniques.

This study analyses the effects of terrorism on tourism demand in Mauritius for the period of 1983 to 2015. It uses a dynamic time series econometric approach namely an ARDL framework to investigate the hypothesized link. The results reveal that in the short run terrorism incidents has an impact on the tourism demand in Mauritius due to the reactive psychological perception that tourists have about travelling. However in the long run, this is not the case.

This paper investigates the impact of FDI on domestic capital accumulation in 20 African countries for the period 2001 to 2015.The research uses a Panel Vector Autoregressive framework which accounts for possibility of both dynamism and endogeneity issues in the FDI-Domestic investment link, while at the same time providing interesting insight on the link both in the long and short run.

The present study aims at investigating the underlying elements influencing the productivity and exchange rate nexus within a meta-analysis framework. In particular, on the
basis of the literature available, a thorough examination of our data set is done to obtain answers to a series of questions highly relevant for both researchers and policy-makers: (1) Do data characteristics, specification characteristics and estimation characteristics systematically influence the estimates? (2) Do home country’s characteristics affect the size of the impact of productivity on exchange rate?

This chapter introduces the reader to secondary data analysis. It starts by familiarizing the researcher with simple regression specifications and models after analyzing
multivariate models. Time series, cross-section, and panel data analysis are subsequently discussed, together with related diagnosis tests. After reading this chapter, readers should able to specify multivariate conceptual and regression models related to tourism studies, collect and organize data sets, and engage in the interpretation of regression outputs.