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Determinants of international tourist choices in Italian provinces : a joint demand-supply approach with spatial effects
Lorenzini, Eleonora; Pisati, Maurizio; Pompili, Tomaso - 2014
Research trying to explain tourism flows and expenditures for different destinations has so far adopted either a tourism-demand or a tourism-supply approach. Whereas on the one hand the former ignores the product specificities (Papatheodorou, 2001), the latter, on the other, fails to take into...
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Quarterly GDP estimates for the German states
Lehmann, Robert; Wikman, Ida - 2022
To date, only annual information on economic activity is published for the 16 German states. In this paper, we calculate quarterly regional GDP estimates for the period between 1995 to 2020, thereby improving the regional database in Germany. The new data set will regularly be updated when...
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Quarterly GDP estimates for the German States : new data for business cycle analyses and long-run dynamics
Lehmann, Robert; Wikman, Ida - 2023
To date, only annual information on economic activity is published for the 16 German states. In this paper, we calculate quarterly regional GDP estimates for the period between 1995 to 2021, thereby improving the regional database for Germany. The new data set will regularly be updated when...
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The heterogeneous effects of entry on prices
Fischer, Kai; Martin, Simon; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp - 2023
We study the effect of entry on the price distribution in the German retail gasoline market. Exploiting more than 700 … entries over five years in an event study design, we find that entry causes a persistent first-order stochastic shift in the … to 12% of stations’ gross margins. Consumers with easy access to information on prices gain the most from entry. The …
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The Origin and Location of Entrants in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry
Buenstorf, Guido; Klepper, Steven - 2004
During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...
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The origin and location of entrants in the evolution of the U.S. tire industry
Bünstorf, Guido; Klepper, Steven - 2004 - This version: May 2004
During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011503585
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Spatial Dispersion of Retail Margins : Evidence from Turkish Agricultural Prices
YILMAZKUDAY, HAKAN - 2018
The farmer share of retail prices is shown to be about 16 percent, corresponding to about 84 percent of a distribution share, on average across agricultural products and regions within Turkey. The share of transportation costs in retail prices is only about 7 percent, while the share of retail...
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Aggregate and regional economic effects of new railway infrastructure
Polasek, Wolfgang; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; Sellner, Richard - 2009
Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be assessed on a regional level, but econom(etr)ic evaluation...
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Austrian border regions and eastern integration: A low competitiveness - high growth paradoxon
Mayerhofer, Peter - 2002
Many regions on the EU Eastern borders have developed favourably after the opening up of the border and the implementation of association agreements with the CEECs. This was often seen as a positive sign for the further perspectives of these regions after EU enlargement. In this paper we take a...
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Openness and urban concentration in Europe, 1870-1990
Nitsch, Volker - 2001
This paper provides a new attempt to examine the relationship between an economy's exposure to foreign trade and its degree of urban concentration. In contrast to previous work, which is often based on rich cross-country data sets, the analysis is focused exclusively on European countries,...
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