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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database
Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144409
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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work
Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort extraction function in one sector. Effort of workers can be influenced by pay and monitoring. This results in an endogenous non-competitive wage differential between sectors and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504903
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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database
Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255468
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Unemployment, Growth and the Organisation of Work
Groot, Henri L.F. de; Schaik, Anton B.T.M. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort extraction function in one sector. Effort of workers can be influenced by pay and monitoring. This results in an endogenous non-competitive wage differential between sectors and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256488
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Importance of E-services for Cultural Tourism
Leeuwen, Eveline van; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201136
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The Economics of Information in Transport
Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838592
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The Economics of Information in Transport
Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Travelers often are incompletely informed about travel alternatives, which has important implications for various domains of travel behavior such as whether or not to make a trip, modal choice, the timing of a trip or route choice. During the last decade large efforts have been made to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255988
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256314
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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 van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
ICT-services, transportation, and local development, among others, an increasing number of destinations is competing to … founded, recent progress in e-services has opened new opportunities for informing and attracting visitors. This paper examines … the potential effects of e-services in an inclusive model of destination loyalty towards the city of Leipzig (Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256574
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A Firm's First Year
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - Tinbergen Institute - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136867