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Where should we go? : internet searches and tourist arrivals
Cevik, Serhan - 2020
The widespread availability of internet search data is a new source of high-frequency information that can potentially … results indicate that the forecast model incorporating internet search data provides additional information about tourist …
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Japan's inbound tourism boom : lessons for its post-COVID-19 revival
Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen - 2020
policies have had significant impacts on Japan's inbound tourism demand in the long run. In the short run, natural disasters …In this paper, we review developments in Japanese inbound tourism and investigate the main determinants of its rapid … growth prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model with data on 34 tourism …
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Individual choice or policies? : drivers of female employment in Europe
Christiansen, Lone; Lin, Huidan; Pereira, Joana; … - 2016
Female labor force participation has increased markedly in many European countries during the past decades. Nonetheless, participation rates remain low in some economies, and a significant gender gap persists in most countries. Using micro-level data to control for factors that influence...
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Gender diversity in senior positions and firm performance : evidence from Europe
Christiansen, Lone; Lin, Huidan; Pereira, Joana; … - 2016
This paper examines the link between gender diversity in senior corporate positions and financial performance of 2 million companies in Europe. We document a positive association between corporate return on assets and the share of women in senior positions and establish two potential channels...
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COVID-19 she-cession : the employment penalty of taking care of young children
Fabrizio, Stefania; Gomes, Diego Braz Pereira; Mendes … - 2021
The COVID-19 outbreak and the measures to contain the virus have caused severe disruptions to labor supply and demand worldwide. Understanding who is bearing the burden of the crisis and what drives it is crucial for designing policies going forward. Using the U.S. monthly Current Population...
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In search of information : use of Google trends' data to narrow information gaps for low-income developing countries
Narita, Futoshi; Yin, Rujun - 2018
Timely data availability is a long-standing challenge in policy-making and analysis for low-income developing countries. This paper explores the use of Google Trends' data to narrow such information gaps and finds that online search frequencies about a country significantly correlate with...
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The Role of Information in Driving FDI Flows : Host-Country Transparency and Source-Country Specialization
Razin, Assaf - 2003
We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the abundance of ""intangible"" capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other...
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Noise Traders and Herding Behavior
Redding, Lee Scott - 1996
Recent developments in financial economics have included many explorations into market microstructure, that is, the internal functioning of markets and the ways in which they provide liquidity to traders. An important contribution of this literature is that prices can deviate from their...
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Bridging the mobile digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa : costing under demographic change and urbanization
Alper, C. Emre; Miktus, Michal - 2019
Digital connectivity, including through the modern cellular network technologies, is expected to play a key role for the Future of Work in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We estimate the cost of introducing a full-scale 4G network by 2025 in SSA and an operable 5G network by 2040. We adapt the costing...
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Mobile phone ownership and welfare : evidence from South Africa's household survey
Miyajima, Ken - 2020
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