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Tourism has become the world's third-largest export industry after fuels and chemicals, and ahead of food and automotive products. From last few years, there has been a great surge in international tourism, culminates to 7% share of World's total exports in 2016. To this end, the study attempts...
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We test the assumptions of trade-off theory (TOT) and pecking order theory (POT) regarding corporate leverage. The dependent variable being the debt ratio, we apply a linear model upon a balanced panel data-set of 2,370 French SMEs over the period 2002 - 2010. In accordance to TOT, trade credit...
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This paper examines the determinants of social spending in Latin America during the period 1990–2012 and how they differed between the years of the Washington Consensus (1990–2000) and the period that followed (2001–2012). Special attention is also paid to the evaluation of convergence...
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The manufacturing sector is a major purchaser of services and therefore has a significant impact on growth in the … service sector. Conversely, there is not as much impetus generated by services to the manufacturing sector. In 2009 … support services to enterprises was particularly high. In the economic policy debate, these relationships should be stronger …
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The goal of this research is to understand, if emotional labour is part of atypical service professions like service engineering. The protagonists of this study are service engineers, their employing organisations and customers (service triad). We are interested in the following questions: How...
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The post‑pandemic period in the European Union is distinguished by the growth of business economic activity after two years of restrictions, growing debts and money supply, and extremely high inflation. This research analyses the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) in the service...
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they want to have themselves. They asked for the products and services according to their own wishes, namely: high …
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Purpose - Banks are institutions that inject money in the economy and help to boost it when there are problems in some markets, especially in productive sectors. In this way, analysing the competition in this sector is an important tool for policymakers as non-competitive behaviour could affect...
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This study is an attempt to investigate the impact of concentrated ownership on the growth of the manufacturing firms listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange for the data 2006-2016. A number of panel data estimation techniques are employed; all confirm the positive alignment effect of concentrated...
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