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A further step into the ELGH and TLGH for Spain and Italy
Cortés_Jiménez, Isabel; Pulina, Manuela - 2006
Nowadays many developing countries focus on economic policies for promoting international tourism and exports expansion as a potential source of economic growth of the country. However, the understanding of the relationship between exports and economic growth is still ongoing. When treating the...
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Tourist tax and ratings of online reviews
Marsi, Antonio; Randon, Emanuela - 2021
Tourist taxes represent one of the principal sources of revenue for a number of local authorities. Using a dataset of more than 300 thousands reviews on TripAdvisor, we analyze the effect of tourist taxes on online ratings posted by hotel costumers. Online ratings are strategic variables for the...
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The Impact of China on Stock Returns and Volatility in the Taiwan Tourism Industry
Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - 2013
the volatility size effects for firm performance, regardless of firm size and estimation period. Furthermore, the risk …This paper investigates the stock returns and volatility size effects for firm performance in the Taiwan tourism … Taiwan. Four conditional univariate GARCH models are used to estimate the volatility in the stock indexes for large and small …
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Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...
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Gender differences in risk-taking: Evidence from professional basketball
Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2016
We analyze gender differences in risk-taking in high-pressure situations. Using novel data from professional athletes … strategy could secure winning the match. Female teams, in contrast, reduce their risk-taking in these situations. The less time … tournament), we find no increase in risk-taking for male teams. …
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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the …
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Do consumers gamble to convexify?
Crossley, Thomas F.; Low, Hamish; Smith, Sarah - 2011
amongst those likely to be credit constrained. This is consistent with credit constrained, risk-averse agents gambling to …
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US taxation of gambling winnings and incentives to bet
Whelan, Karl - 2022
Sports betting is growing rapidly in the US after its legalization by the Supreme Court in 2018. This paper describes the treatment of gambling winnings and losses in the federal tax code and shows how the system may incentivize some gamblers to substantially increase the scale of their betting...
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Risk aversion and favorite-longshot bias in a competitive fixed-odds betting market
Whelan, Karl - 2022
among gamblers and risk-aversion on the part of bookmakers in a competitive market can produce a pattern of favorite …
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Management of socio-economic development of tourism enterprises
Kryshtanovych, Svitlana; Kindzer, Bogdan; Goryn, Marta; … - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 21 (2020) 1, pp. 420-426
To date, the tourism business is developing rapidly and the mountainous territories are not inferior in competition to other tourist territories. For the development of the tourism business, it is necessary to conduct effective management of socio-economic development. The main purpose of the...
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