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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database

Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...

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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort extraction function in one sector. Effort of workers can be influenced by pay and monitoring. This results in an endogenous non-competitive wage differential between sectors and a...

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The Economics of Information in Transport

Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...

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Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism

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

of e-services in urban cultural tourism. Its aim is to map out the relative drivers of cultural visitors to cities with a … particular view on the importance of modern e-services in the tourist sector. We focus on three case-study cities: Amsterdam … heritage and e-services. Interestingly, in all three cities, the most important group of tourists, the cultural heritage …

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Describing the Relationships between Tourist Satisfaction and Destination Loyalty in a Segmented and Digitalized Market

Neuts, Bart; Romão, João; Leeuwen, Eveline van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

ICT-services, transportation, and local development, among others, an increasing number of destinations is competing to … founded, recent progress in e-services has opened new opportunities for informing and attracting visitors. This paper examines … the potential effects of e-services in an inclusive model of destination loyalty towards the city of Leipzig (Germany …

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Cost Reducing Investment, Competition and Industry Dynamics

Petrakis, Emmanuel; Roy, Santanu - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

We demonstrate the possibility of shake-out of firms and emergence of inter-firmheterogeneity along the (socially optimal) dynamic equilibrium path of a competitive industry with freeentry and exit, even when there is no uncertainty and all firms are ex ante identical with perfectforesight....

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On the Effects of Suggested Prices in Gasoline Markets

Faber, Riemer P.; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This article analyzes the role of suggested prices in the Dutch retail market for gasoline. Suggested prices are announced by large oil companies with the suggestion that retailers follow them. There are at least two competing rationales for the existence of suggested prices: they may either...

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Hotelling Models with Price-Sensitive Demand and Asymmetric Transport Costs: An Application to Public Transport Scheduling

Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik van der; Verhoef, Erik T.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

setting; there, services are scheduled closer together than optimal. We also show that it is possible to include asymmetric …

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Market Structure and the Pricing of New Products: A Nested Logit Approach with Asymmetric Firms

Bleker, Sylvia; Behrens, Christiaan; Koster, Paul; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This article investigates competition in a market with an emerging technology using a discrete choice model to analyze demand and welfare. We focus on industry structure and investigate the impact of different market structures on demand for the new technology and on welfare. The car market...

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Going where the Ad leads you: On High Advertised Prices and Search where to buy

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Non, Marielle C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

The search literature assumes that consumers know which firms sell products they are looking for, but are unaware of the particular variety and the prices at which each firm sells. In this paper, we consider the situation where consumers are uncertain whether a firm carries the product at all by...

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