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Assessment of Tourist Competitiveness by analysing Destination Efficiency

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

Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the … subject of this paper – inspired by the conceptual competitiveness model developed earlier by Crouch and Ritchie – concerns … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …

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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 Instituut - 2006

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 competitiveness position of several Italian regions has not improved over …

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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services

Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...

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Crowding Perception in a Tourist City: A Question of Preference

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding concept, as is often assumed, is examined through...

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The Impact of China on Stock Returns and Volatility in the Taiwan Tourism Industry

Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2014). Volume 29(C), pages 381-401. This paper investigates the stock returns and volatility size effects for firm performance in the Taiwan tourism industry, especially the impacts arising...

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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 Instituut - 2011

See also the article in Papers in Regional Science (2011). Volume 90, issue 1, pages 67-90. 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...

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A Firm's First Year

Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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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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Individual Team Productivity - A Conceptual Approach

Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten; Prinz, Joachim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this concept is aimed to be operable on observable data. In...

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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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