This paper investigates the effect of dollar depreciation on the US tourism trade balance. Export revenue and import spending functions are estimated separately with structural vector autoregressive methods to better capture dynamic adjustments to exchange rate shocks. Quarterly data cover the...

This paper investigates the effects of the real exchange rate and income on US tourism export revenue and import spending with quarterly data for the floating exchange period from 1973 to 2010. Separate estimates of export revenue and import spending functions prove more revealing than estimates...

This paper investigates evidence on the effect of dollar depreciation on the US tourism balance of trade. Export revenue and import spending functions are estimated separately with structural vector autoregressive methods to better capture the dynamic adjustment to exchange rate shocks....