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This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...
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This paper is focused on hotel customers' internal and external satisfaction. Some previous studies had only focused on the customers' external satisfaction and only a few studies had managed to link between the two variables. The study also looked into factors which may act as internal...
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Purpose – Transforming experiences is in this paper approached as a destination choice process for adventure tourists. This study seeks to explain conditions that support place identity and place dependence development in Tanzania. The study proposes a testable destination choice model of...
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electronics) wholesalers in Taiwan. This study intends to select a best practice for service as a benchmark through which firms …
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—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … Kong and Taiwan), Korea and Singapore are complemented with comparisons to trends in national policy and private sector … practice in Japan and the United States. Preliminary findings indicate that while progress has been made towards establishing …
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In selected East Asian economies, the behavior of detrended macroeconomic variables was found to be similar to that observed in the postwar U.S. economy. Consumption and investment are highly procyclical while the balance of trade and the price level are counter-cyclical in most of them. Labor...
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major East Asian countries/regions as well as Japan and the United States. Given the dynamic changes in the economies of …
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This study provides value estimates for intangible assets of publicly traded hotel firms in the USA. When evaluating a …
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An unprecedented number of hotel company mergers took place between 2004 and 2007. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were abnormal stock returns or volume activity in the periods surrounding the merger announcement date in the trading of 19 public hotel companies which...
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