Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean

There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of US policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effec...

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Main Authors:	Gawande, Kishore, Maloney, William, Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Sports Gambling Recreation Tourism L830 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5767

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spelling	okr-10986-57672021-04-23T14:02:23Z Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean Gawande, Kishore Maloney, William Montes-Rojas, Gabriel Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Sports Gambling Recreation Tourism L830 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of US policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are used to explore and quantify the association between foreign lobbying by Caribbean principals and US tourist arrivals to Caribbean destinations. A variety of sensitivity analyses support the finding of a strong association. The policy implications are obvious and potentially important for developing countries. 2012-03-30T07:34:26Z 2012-03-30T07:34:26Z 2009 Journal Article Journal of Development Economics 03043878 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5767 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Latin America & Caribbean
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spellingShingle	Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior D720 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Sports Gambling Recreation Tourism L830 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Gawande, Kishore Maloney, William Montes-Rojas, Gabriel Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean
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description	There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of US policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are used to explore and quantify the association between foreign lobbying by Caribbean principals and US tourist arrivals to Caribbean destinations. A variety of sensitivity analyses support the finding of a strong association. The policy implications are obvious and potentially important for developing countries.
format	Journal Article
author	Gawande, Kishore Maloney, William Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
author_facet	Gawande, Kishore Maloney, William Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
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title	Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean
title_short	Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean
title_full	Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean
title_fullStr	Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean
title_full_unstemmed	Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean
title_sort	foreign informational lobbying can enhance tourism : evidence from the caribbean
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Foreign Informational Lobbying Can Enhance Tourism : Evidence from the Caribbean

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