Arvind Patel

Biographic Data

ID4265677
NAMEArvind Patel
GIVEN NAMESArvind
FAMILY NAMEPatel
SIGNATUREPATEL A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the South Pacific
ORCID0000-0002-3223-7585
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Modelling structural breaks in the tourism-led growth hypothesis

    Open AccessNikeel Nishkar Kumar, Arvind PatelARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2024

    Structural breaks represent periods of turmoil that may influence how tourism affects economic growth. Current research on the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH) measures the effect of structural breaks using dummy variables in regression models. However, the drawback of this approach is that there could be multiple structural breaks which result in an overfitting problem and reduce degrees of freedom in small samples. It also becomes difficult…

  • Modelling the impact of Covid-19 in small pacific island countries

    Nikeel Nishkar Kumar, Arvind PatelARTICLECurrent Issues in Tourism2022

    This paper studies the economic impact of COVID-19 in Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu. The UNWTO’s International Tourism 2020 Scenarios and the World Bank’s projected decline in remittance flows are treated as negative COVID-19 led shocks in the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model. Negative tourism shocks are significant for all three countries, whereas negative remittance shocks are significant for Tonga only. Thus, the economic effe…

  • Modelling tourism competitiveness in small Pacific island countries

    Open AccessNikeel Nishkar Kumar, Arvind Patel et al.ARTICLETourism Economics2022

    This study models overall and bilateral tourism competitiveness in small Pacific island countries (PICs), namely, Cook Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Vanuatu. The pooled mean group approach, which corrects for cross-sectional dependence and non-stationarity, is used for estimation with quarterly data from 2002 to 2019. The findings indicate that for Fiji and Vanuatu, other PICs are competing destinations and that Fiji and Vanuatu face the strong…

  • Why does currency denomination in external liabilities of small island developing states matter? Evidence from Fiji

    Open AccessDevendra Kumar Jain, Rup Singh et al.ARTICLEAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies2022References: 1

    The valuation effects on international investment position induced by the exchange rate volatility are not uniform or easily manageable in small and vulnerable economies when compared with larger developing or developed countries. To investigate the underlying dynamics, we developed a foreign currency exposure index over the period 2006–2019. The positive reading of the index suggests that though Fiji has a high net negative international investm…

  • Projecting populations for major Pacific Island countries with and without Covid-19

    Open AccessSumeet Lal, Rup Singh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Research2021Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Sexual Harassment at Work and E-government

    Open AccessSuwastika Naidu, Atishwar Pandaram et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2021References: 11

  • Mixed frequency evidence of the tourism growth relationship in small Island developing states

    Nikeel Nishkar Kumar, Ravinay Amit Chandra et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Journal of Tourism…2021Cited by: 2References: 2

    In this study, we examine the effect of tourism on economic growth in Tonga. We apply Ghysels Beta-MIDAS approach to estimate the elasticity of tourism, identify breaks with the multiple break test, and test for causality using the mixed frequency VAR approach. We utilize a sample from 1995 quarter 1 to 2018 quarter 4. The results indicate that the long-run effect of tourism is 0.06. Two structural breaks are identified, and both have negative gr…

  • The Effect of Remittances on Economic Growth in Kyrgyzstan and Macedonia

    Open AccessRonald Ravinesh Kumar, Peter Josef Stauvermann et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration2017Cited by: 5References: 7

    Kyrgyzstan and Macedonia have experienced a reasonable increase in remittances over the last twenty‐five years. Subsequently, the extent to which remittances can be instrumental for economic development of the two countries has gained serious attention in recent development dialogues. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of remittances versus financial development on the economic growth of the two counties, complementing the burgeoning …

  • Exploring the Nexus Between Tourism and Output in Cook Islands

    Open AccessRonald Ravinesh Kumar, Peter Josef Stauvermann et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2016Cited by: 5References: 44