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The unique-lowest sealed-bid auction
Houba, Harold; Laan, Dinard van der; Veldhuizen, Dirk - 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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Assessment of tourist competitiveness by analysing destination efficiency
Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
the efficiency of tourist site destinations. Using a dataset of 103 Italian regions for the year 2001, an economic … efficiency analysis based on a production frontier approach has been made in the present study. The study deploys a measure of … tourist site competitiveness in terms of its technical efficiency using parametric and non-parametric methods, a stochastic …
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Matching and winning? : the impact of upper and middle managers on team performance
Peeters, Thomas; Salaga, Steven; Juravich, Matthew - 2015 - This version: October 2015
In this paper we investigate the impact of upper and middle level managers on firm performance by simultaneously estimating manager and match qualities for management pairings in Major League Baseball (MLB). We document the economic significance of managers at both organizational levels and...
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A firm's first year
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2004
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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Efficiency and productivity of Italian tourist destinations : a quantitative estimation based on data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist method
Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006
uses two modelling approaches to estimate the competitiveness of these regions, viz. data envelopment analysis (DEA) and …
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Crowding perception in a tourist city : a question of preference
Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011
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Is small beautiful? Size effects of volatility spillovers for firm performance and exchange rates in tourism
Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - 2013
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Individual team productivity : a conceptual approach
Müller, Julia; Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten; Prinz, Joachim - 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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Describing the relationships between tourist satisfaction and destination loyalty in a segmented and digitalized market
Neuts, Bart; Romão, João; Leeuwen, Eveline S. van - 2013
As a result of advances in ICT-services, transportation, and local development, among others, an increasing number of destinations is competing to attract both national and international visitors. Globalisation requires destinations to increase their competitiveness or risk losing out on tourist...
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