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The role of cultural distance in boosting international tourism arrivals in ASEAN: a gravity model

Heriqbaldi, Unggul; Esquivias, Miguel Angel; Agusti, … - In: Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality 18 (2023) 1, pp. 97-109

Purpose This study aims to explore the role of cultural distance, economic integration, price competitiveness and substitution prices for tourism arrivals between 10 Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries and 22 other origin countries from 2007 to 2019. Design/methodology/approach A panel-data...

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Path Analysis Model for Supply Chain Risk Management

Sharma, Satyendra Kumar; Bhat, Anil; Kumar, Vinod; … - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Supply … 10 (2017) 2, pp. 21-41

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to understand the relationship of supply chain risk sources, risk drivers, and risk mitigation strategies to the overall risk exposure of the firm and to validate the model empirically. An attempt has been made to determine the major contributors...

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Identifying Dissatisfied 4G Customers from Network Indicators: A Comparison between Complaint and Survey Data

Huet, Alexis; Ouyang, Ye; Mantian (Mandy) Hu; Dai, Xinling - In: International Journal of Interdisciplinary … 8 (2016) 1, pp. 12-20

Feedback data directly collected from users are a great source of information for telecom operators. They are usually retrieved as complaints and survey data. For the mobile telecoms sector, one purpose is to manage those data to identify network problems leading to customer dissatisfaction. In...

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Identifying the German Inventory Cycle

Langmantel, Erich - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 225 (2005) 6, pp. 675-687

Summary Inventory fluctuations play an important role in the formation of business cycles. In Germany, little research has been dedicated to this topic recently. In this study, a structural time series model in the tradition of Harvey (1989) is employed to decompose German inventory investment...

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Assessing the Rationality of Survey Expectations: The Probability Approach

Breitung, Jörg - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 5-6, pp. 630-643

Summary This paper considers popular methods for the quantification of survey expectations. We investigate the asymptotic properties of two variants of the probability approach originally suggested by Carlson and Parkin (1975). It is argued that the traditional method can be interpreted as an...

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Regressive Oil Price Expectations Toward More Fundamental Values of the Oil Price

Reitz, Stefan; Rülke, Jan-Christoph; Stadtmann, Georg - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 230 (2010) 4, pp. 454-466

Summary We use oil price forecasts from the Consensus Economic Forecast poll for the time period Oct. 1989 - Dec. 2008 … regressive expectation formation hypothesis play a role. Standard measures of forecast accuracy reveal forecasters’ under … unbiasedness and orthogonality. Although both conditions are met, the forecast accuracy is significantly lower compared to naïve …

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Firms’ Evaluation of Location Quality: Evidence from East Germany

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Hirte, Georg; Stephan, Andreas - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236 (2016) 2, pp. 241-273

Abstract Our study provides evidence for firms’ evaluation of location quality. We use a 2004 survey of 6,000 East German firms that contained questions on the importance and assessment of 15 different location factors ranging from closeness to customers and suppliers, transport...

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Determinants of Business Fixed Investment: Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Buettner, Thiess; Hoenig, Anja - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236 (2016) 5, pp. 533-556

Abstract This paper employs a novel firm-level dataset that combines financial accounts of German firms with data from a business survey to shed new light on the demand for capital. The empirical analysis employs firm-specific indicators in order to explore the effects of sales, the cost of...

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Supply risk management: model development and empirical analysis

Kern, Daniel; Moser, Roger; Hartmann, Evi; Moder, Marco - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 42 (2012) 1, pp. 60-82

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for upstream supply chain risk management linking risk identification, risk assessment and risk mitigation to risk performance and validate the model empirically. The effect of a continuous improvement process on identification,...

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Effective information collection on international inbound visitors

Wu, Wu‐Chung; Dai, You‐De; Jack Liu, Hsiou‐Hsiang - In: International Journal of Culture, Tourism and … 6 (2012) 1, pp. 54-69

Purpose – Data collection from inbound tourists is a repetitive activity. This paper's main purpose is to show that, unless something useful about the nature of change is being established, repetitious collection of data from, for example, inbound visitors results in ineffective accumulation...

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