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We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying shopping mall. Consumers shop at either marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems from the interplay between the market expansion...
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Payment and checkout at retail stores is increasingly being replaced by automated systems. One recent technological invention in this area is mobile self-scanning in which customers carry a mobile scanner while shopping. Mobile self-scanners give real-time feedback on spending. The device...
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Payment and checkout at retail stores is increasingly being replaced by automated systems. One recent technological invention in this area is mobile self-scanning in which customers carry a mobile scanner while shopping. Mobile self-scanners give real-time feedback on spending. The device...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208795
Young people have rapidly adopted the practice of using a variety of channels through which to shop, especially for products that require thorough information on features and price. IT & C products fall into this category, and buyers using multiple channels benefit from the advantages of...
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Crowding on public transport (PT) is a major issue for commuters around the world. Nevertheless, economists have rarely … investigated the causes of crowding discomfort. Furthermore, most evidence on the costs of PT crowding is based on contingent … valuation studies. First, this paper assesses discomfort with PT crowding over different density levels, trip durations and …
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Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary … logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding … variables have a larger effect on the perception of crowding than use-level. Furthermore, the relationship between crowding and …
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model in order to offer a monetary valuation of tourist crowding in urban public space. A resident survey was carried out in … to avoid unfavourable crowding situations can be assessed. Their willingness to pay in order to increase the use levels … €11.06 a year. While tourism is only partly responsible for these crowding levels, the results demonstrate that the social …
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when tourist services are supplied to foreign tourists who are crowding-averse and give positive value to the environmental … with respect to the market solution when the natural regeneration rate of the environment and the degree of crowding …
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Empirical studies of the principal-agent relationship find that extrinsic incentives work in many instances, linking rewards to performance increases effort, but that they can also backfire, reducing effort. Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to work to master a skill or to improve one's...
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We construct a fund-specific measure of crowding using the equity holdings overlap of 17,364 global funds which are … actively managed. Funds in the top decile of crowding underperform the passive benchmark by 1.4% per year. The poor performance … cannot be attributed to fees and transaction costs alone. When we explore the economics behind crowding, we establish that …
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