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The main purposes of this paper are (i) to analyze the regional promotion strategies of the UEFA Euro 2004 and (ii) to … contribute for the improvement of planning and implementation strategies of tourism marketing at regional level. Data regarding …, the present study contains something new as it introduces an ante analysis on the regional pronotion strategies of major …
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This paper reviews the research literature relevant to economic development incentives provided by state and local … governments, and recommends reforms in these incentives. I argue that the main problem with current incentive policies is that … state and local governments often provide incentives that are not in the best interest of that state or local area, for …
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The purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to identify particular public policies which have the potential to increase the economic viability of smaller metropolitan areas and cities. We identify characteristics associated with smaller metro areas that performed better-than-expected...
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Using data for Mississippi, this paper revisits Burkey and Simkins' (2004) work on factors determining the number of payday lenders and banks. With data at two levels of geographic aggregation, the paper discovers whether empirical results are robust and allows for uncertainty in geographic...
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The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...
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institutions across five countries: USA, Portugal, Cyprus, Serbia, and South Korea. The results suggest that individualism … theory of planned behaviour to analyse sustainability attitudes, behaviours and intentions among students in higher education …
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region (CVRVV) in Portugal. The results of the study show the importance of the network relationship for entry to the US …
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survey response rates. Results indicated that the inclusion of incentives did not increase survey response rate nor did value … of incentive or incentive saliency. Respondents who were offered incentives, however, were quicker in providing the … requested information than those respondents not offered incentives for their participation. Discussion details how audiences …
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In this paper we test Okun's Law for individuals states from 1990 through 2012. We find the relationship between output and unemployment becomes stronger following the 2007 Great Recession. For most states the impact of a change in output on unemployment has increased and in many cases the...
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