Rural tourism has been promoted as an effective catalyst for growth in rural areas severely hit by the rural structuring process. However, with regard to islands, rural tourism has been mainly advertised and promoted as a counterpoint to mass tourism. While in most Western countries rural tourism has been in place for decades, islands have been pursuing a rural tourism agenda only since the 1990s. Consequently,...
This paper uses threshold models for purposes of analysing the interest rate behaviour defined by the European Central Bank, as prescribed by the Taylor rule, for the EMU member states from January 1999 2008, Évora, Portugal 26 and July 2007.