The contribution of tourism to the economic growth of Pacific Island countries (PICs) has achieved significance in the past decade. The shift in the economic policies of the PICs from the late 1980s has been decisively away from import substitution and agriculture to urban-based manufacturing...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of US macroeconomic conditions - namely, exchange rate and short-term interest rate - on the stocks of seven Asian countries (China, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and South Korea). Using daily data for the period 2000 to...