Does the Confucius Institute Impact International Travel to China? A Panel Data Analysis

Donald Lien (), Sucharita Ghosh and Steven Yamarik ()
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Donald Lien: UTSA

Working Papers from College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of Confucius Institutes on inbound travel to China. We estimate a panel gravity model of inbound tourism flows to China between 2004 and 2010. Pooled least squares estimates show that a Confucius Institute increases overall inbound tourism as well as business tourists and worker tourists. After controlling for unobserved country effects and endogeneity using random effects and Hausman-Taylor estimators, we find that the presence of a Confucius Institute continues to have a positive impact on the worker travel flows.

Keywords: International tourism; Confucius Institute; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2013
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