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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
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The magic of the personal touch : field experimental evidence on money appreciation as gifts
Bradler, Christiane; Neckermann, Susanne - 2016
This paper makes use of two field experiments to explore individual effort responses to gifts. We extend the literature by looking at nonfinancial gifts and gifts that combine financial and nonfinancial elements with or without adding a “personal touch.” We find that non-pecuniary gifts that...
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Individual determinants of inventor productivity : report and preliminary results with evidence from linked human capital and patent data
Frosch, Katharina; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
This report offers new insights into the drivers of inventor productivity at the individual level. It includes well-known drivers, such as inventor age and education, and controls for inventor team size, and firm/applicant information, as well as period and technology field effects derived from...
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The retention effect of training : portability, visibility, and credibility
Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2016
This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Schlütter, Frank - 2016
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of more than 45,000 hotels in different countries. Although OTAs apparently have not changed their standard commission rates following the partial ban of BPCs in Europe, we find that BPCs do...
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: December, 2017
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of more than 45,000 hotels in different countries. Although OTAs apparently have not changed their standard commission rates following the partial ban of BPCs in Europe, we find that BPCs do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778141
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Hotel rankings of online travel agents, channel pricing, and consumer protection
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2018
We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an OTA can use such a strategy to reduce price differentiation across distribution...
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Evaluation of best price clauses in hotel booking
Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: April 23, 2017
We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of nearly 30,000 hotels in different countries. We find that BPCs influence the pricing and availability of hotel rooms across online sales channels. In particular, the abolition of Booking.com's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648487
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Romania’s development to a low-tax country : effective corporate tax burden in Romania from 1992 to 2010 and Romania’s current ranking among the eastern European member states
Spengel, Christoph; Lazar, Sebastian; Evers, Lisa; … - 2012
We trace back Romania’s development to a low-tax country among the Member States of the European Union by analysing the … description of the development of corporate taxation in Romania, but goes on with a numerical analysis of the tax burdens at … different periods of time which constitute milestones in the development of corporate taxation in Romania. For this purpose, we …
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