The study examines the Tourism Satellite Account as a tool for measuring the macroeconomic impacts of tourism. In Chapter One the essence, structure, strengths and weaknesses of the Tourism Satellite Account are elaborated. In Chapter Two the macroeconomic impacts of tourism are defined and the...

Many macroeconometric models depict situations where the shares of the major demand aggregates in output are stable over time. The joint dynamic behavior of the considered demand aggregate and output may thus be approximated by a cointegrated vector autoregression. However, the shares of many...

National accounts data are always revised. Not only recent data, but also figures dating many years back can be revised substantially. This means that there is a danger that an important part of the central bank's information set is flawed for a long period of time. In this paper we present a...

Das System der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) in Deutschland wurde im Frühjahr 2005 von der Festpreisbasis auf das Vorjahrespreiskonzept (Kettenindexkonzept) umgestellt. Dadurch werden Substitutionseffekte besser berücksichtigt und die periodische Umbasierung der Zeitreihen...