Binary survey data from the Austrian National Guest Survey conducted in the summer season of 1997 were used to identify behavioral market segments on the basis of vacation activity information.(...) [Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch]<p>Dieses Arbeitspapier ist ebenfalls als Aufsatz erschienen in:...</p>

A simulation environment for exploring analytical tools and joint segmentation and brand positioning strategies is tailored to comply with the perceptions-based approach to market segmentation. The initial version contains a number of ad hoc segmentation strategies....

This paper tests whether out-of-sample hedonic value predictions can be improved when a large urban housing market is divided into submarkets.

In this paper, it is examined whether the structure of constrained submarkets constructed according to three a priori classifications (property type, house value and geographical areas) differs from that of unconstrained submarkets constructed by means of principal component analysis and cluster...

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) is a participative pricing mechanism which is characterizedby the fact that consumers have maximum control over the price they pay. We discuss thebusiness relevance of PWYW and extend the findings of Kim et al. (2009) using latentclass regression. Two different classes...

This paper empirically analyzes a particular type of notes observed insecuritization transactions: combination notes. Combination notes are formedby combining parts of two or more tranches of securitization transactions,where one part usually consists of a share of the first loss piece. It is...

Der folgende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Problem der Modellselektion im Finite Mixture Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS)-Ansatz. Dieser Ansatz, welcher der Methodengruppe der Mischverteilungsmodelle zuzuordnen ist, ermöglicht eine simultane Schätzung der Modellparameter bei gleichzeitiger...

Nachhaltigkeit ist ein Schwerpunktthema in der aktuellen poltischen und gesellschaftlichen Diskussion. Nachhaltigkeit gemäss dem verbreiteten Drei-Säulen-Modell verfolgt den Ansatz der gleichwertigen Berücksichtigung von ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Zielen für eine nachhaltige...

Measuring NPS is relatively straight forward, but using it to drive economic value is not. NPS must lead to a &quot;so what&quot; for the organization. NPAs programs and inititatives must be cost-effective and profitable....

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...