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The optimal contest architecture for symmetric imperfectly discriminating contests is shown to be generically the two-stage tournament (rather than the one-stage contest). In the first stage the contestants compete in several parallel divisions for the right to participate in the second stage....
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Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken the character of a systemic threat. In creating unfair advantages, doping distorts the level playing field in sporting competition. With higher stakes involved, such distortions...
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Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken the character of a systematic threat. In creating unfair advantages, doping distorts the level playing field in sporting competition. With higher stakes involved, such distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139923
This study examines matching effects as a determinant of mobility in the market for Australian Rules football coaches between 1931 and 1994. Among other results, the authors find direct evidence, consistent with match theory, of a coach- team match-specific effect on team performance; that is, a...
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The choice of centralizing tourism policies at the national level or, on the contrary, of decentralizing them at the … role of originator and attractor of tourism of each spatial unit may imply a range of complex and competing interests at … promoting tourism destinations in order to attract tourists. Nevertheless, potential competition/complementarity between regions …
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vectorial prediction. Making use of the existing correlations in international tourism demand to all seventeen regions of Spain …
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Culture is more and more considered as an important driver of tourism. However, it is critical, for policymakers, to … tourist's origin and destination regions) in mediating the tourism impact of cultural offer. This research question is … investigated by means of a spatial interaction model, applied to the case of Italian domestic tourism. We find that distance indeed …
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In this study, we treat the seasonal variation in monthly time series in the context of the Western-European tourism …
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In this paper we present an economic model to analyze the impact produced by changes of tourist's income on the demand for tourist services and on the investments of hotels on environmental quality. The ingredients of the model are an oligopoly tourist market with a vertical product...
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This paper aims to compare the performance of different Artificial Neural Networks techniques for tourist demand forecasting. We test the forecasting accuracy of three different types of architectures: a multi-layer perceptron, a radial basis function and an Elman network. We also evaluate the...
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