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Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors – An Application to Tourist Regions in I...

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is characterized by uniform proportional input reduction or output augmentation in calculating improvement projections. This paper develops a new Euclidean Distance Minimization model in the context of DEA in order to derive a more appropriate...

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Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism

Leeuwen, Eveline van; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

of e-services in urban cultural tourism. Its aim is to map out the relative drivers of cultural visitors to cities with a … impact on cultural heritage visitors and the tourism sector in general. In addition, it is also important to note that …

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Territorial Capital and Regional Growth: Increasing Returns in Cognitive Knowledge Use

Capello, Roberta; Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Knowledge drives the growth of nations and regions in a competitive space-economy. Hence, we would expect a strong correlation between investments in R&D, knowledge and learning processes, on the one hand, and productivity increases, on the other. However, the empirical evidence shows consistent...

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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification

Vries, Jacob J. de; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the distance-decay function. It appears that neither an...

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Integrating Expenditure and Income Data: What to do with the Statistical Discrepancy?

Beaulieu, J. Joseph; Bartelsman, Eric J. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to build consistent, integrated datasets to investigate whether various disaggregated data can shed light on the possible sources of the statistical discrepancy. Our strategy is first to use disaggregated data to estimate consistent sets of input-output models that...

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A Firm's First Year

Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper determines the structural shocks that shape a firm's first year by estimating a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival using monthly sales histories from 305 Texas bars. We find that heterogeneity in firms' pre-entry scale decisions accounts for about 40% of their...

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The Unique-lowest Sealed-bid Auction

Houba, Harold; Laan, Dinard van der; Veldhuizen, Dirk - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Unique-lowest sealed-bid auctions are auctions in which participation is endogenous and the winning bid is the lowest bid among all unique bids. Such auctions admit very many Nash equilibria (NEs) in pure and mixed strategies. The two-bidders' auction is similar to the Hawk-Dove game, which...

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Efficiency and Productivity of Italian Tourist Destinations: A Quantitative Estimation based on Data Envelopment Analysis and the Malmquist Method

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper aims to provide a statistical analysis of the relative economic performance of Italian tourist areas. It uses two modelling approaches to estimate the competitiveness of these regions, viz. data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist method. Our results show that the...

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Assessment of Tourist Competitiveness by analysing Destination Efficiency

Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

economics literature on tourism. The reason for this interest emerges from both the increasing economic importance of the … tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist market as a consequence of the transition from mass tourism to a … new age of tourism that calls for a tailor-made approach to the specific attitudes and needs of tourists. The central …

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Welfare Effects of Distortionary Company Car Taxation

Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

In Europe, company cars are offered by employers as fringe benefits to their employees at a lower price than employees pay in the car market, mainly due to favourable taxation of company cars. We analyse the welfare effects of favourable taxation of company cars for the Netherlands. The...

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