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Consumer specialization and the Romantic transformation of the British Grand Tour of Europe
Chai, Andreas - 2010
This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patterns resulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure. Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...
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Cultural effects on inbound tourism into the USA: a gravity approach
Vietze, Christoph - 2008
world largest tourism destination. To estimate this empirically we run an augmented gravity equation. Our results give … positive effects on the tourism flows between these countries. In particular, after controlling for a set of geographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263883
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China's exports in ICT and its impact on Asian countries
Xing, Yuqing - 2008
This paper analyses China's ICT exports growth in its two major markets Japan and the US from 1992 to 2004. It focuses …
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Yen or Yuan? China's role in the future of Asian monetary integration
Hefeker, Carsten; Nabor, Andreas - 2002
instead on the potential role of the Chinese renminbi. It becomes increasingly clear that China will assume the role of the …
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
regions (China, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of …
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Anticipated effects of foreign currency reserve diversification in Asian countries: Do China and India matter for coordination?
Sell, Friedrich L. - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 1, pp. 32-38
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Please call me John: Name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900 - 1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2015
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479310
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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304155
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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; Awad, … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322534