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This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...
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Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
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We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially …
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Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers’ behavior and firms’ incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms’...
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We estimate exchange rate elasticities of international tourism. We show that, in addition to the bilateral exchange … rate, the exchange rate between the tourism origin country vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar is an important driver of tourism … flows, indicating a strong role of U.S. dollar pricing. The U.S. dollar exchange rate is more important for tourism …
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This study examines the macro drivers of the time-varying (dynamic) connectedness between eleven European tourism … estate activity. Further, economic and political uncertainty is found to intensify the macro effects on tourism correlations … crash, also magnify the impact of macro drivers on the evolution of co-movement and integration in the tourism sector …
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This paper examines tourism persistence in a group of Southeastern European (SEE) countries (Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria …
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Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … factor of 2.5. Furthermore, we provide evidence of positive spillovers in nearby municipalities. To estimate the tourism …
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This paper reviews the practice and performance of revenue forecasting in selected OECD countries. While the mean forecast errors are small in most countries, the precision of the forecasts measured by the standard deviation of the forecast error differs substantially across countries. Based on...
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This paper studies the determinants of house prices in eight transition economies of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and 19 OECD countries. The main question addressed is whether the conventional fundamental determinants of house prices, such as GDP per capita, real interest rates, housing...
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