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Bruijn, Bert de; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

A Forecast Support System (FSS), which generates sales forecasts, is a sophisticated business analytical tool that can help to improve targeted business decisions. Many companies use such a tool, although at the same time they may allow managers to quote their own forecasts. These sales...

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Digital Destinations in the Tourist Sector: A Path Model for the Impact of e-Services on Tourist Expenditures in Amsterdam

Neuts, Bart; Romao, Joao; Nijkamp, Peter; Leeuwen, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) in recent decades have had profound implications for tourism services, promotion, or distribution. We apply a Structural Equations Model (SEM) to analyse the relationships between the characteristics of tourists visiting Amsterdam,...

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A Joint Framework for Category Purchase and Consumption Behavior

Oest, Rutger van; Paap, Richard; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We propose a consistent utility-based framework to jointly explain a household's decisions on purchase incidence, brand choice and purchase quantity. The approach differs from other approaches, currently available in the literature, as it is able to take into account consumption dynamics. In the...

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Which Brands gain Share from which Brands? Inference from Store-Level Scanner Data

Oest, Rutger van; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Market share models for weekly store-level data are useful to understand competitive structures by delivering own and cross price elasticities. These models can however not be used to examine which brands lose share to which brands during a specificperiod of time. It is for this purpose that we...

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A New Multivariate Product Growth Model

Boswijk, H.P.; Fok, D.; Franses, P.-H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

To examine cross-country diffusion of new products, marketing researchers have to rely on a multivariate product growth model. We put forward such a model, and show that it is a natural extension of the original Bass (1969) model. We contrast our model with currently in use multivariate models...

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen; Ossokina, Ioulia; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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A Geometry of Specialization

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

Division of labor models have become a standard analytical tool, along withcompetitive general equilibrium models (Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models, specialization models lack a canonical...

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Socio-cultural Diversity and Urban Buzz

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Cities have become playing grounds for competitive behaviour and rapid economic dynamics. But in many cities (or urban agglomerations) economic growth is mainly manifested in specific geographic areas, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs are located. This paper offers first the...

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

Groot, Henri L.F. de; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically …

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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition

Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

In the presence of agglomeration economies one might expect a relocation and concentration of industries. Then firm … agglomeration economies founded on microeconomic analysis based on households' and firms' maximization behavior, namely the real … market potential. Besides agglomeration forces, dispersion and human capital effects can be separated and explicitly …

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