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A model of cross-border tourism competition
Kuroda, Tatsuaki; Chen, Kaifan - 2015
Tourism has long been important part of the economy. Specifically, it serves as a kind of resource that performs a … significant role in national economies. With the rise of globalization, cross-border tourism has grown and induced intense … competition among counties. The present paper highlights the situation in which the citizens of two countries have the opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400463
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Service Design Guidelines for New Types of Wellness Tourism
Bonazzi, Riccardo; Grèzes, Vincent; Barbey, Valérie - 2017
wellness tourism, which target (a) “young elderly”, whose age is comprised between 60 and 75 years, and (b) enterprises … findings that should be taken into account when setting up wellness tourism in a dispersed area. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920408
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Small area estimation of labor productivity for the Italian manufacturing SME cross-classified by region, industry and size
Fabrizi, Enrico; Ferrante, Maria; Trivisano, Carlo - 2013
In this paper we propose a new small area estimation methodology aimed at the estimation of Value Added, Labor Cost and related competitiveness indicators for subsets of the population of Italian small and medium sized manufacturing firms classified according to geographical region, industrial...
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Choosing Prior Hyperparameters: With Applications To Time-Varying Parameter Models
Wang, Mu-Chun - 2018
Time-varying parameter models with stochastic volatility are widely used to study macroeconomic and financial data. These models are almost exclusively estimated using Bayesian methods. A common practice is to focus on prior distributions that themselves depend on relatively few hyperparameters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892126
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Forecasting with DSGE Models
Coenen, Günter; Christoffel, Kai; Warne, Anders - 2010
In this paper we review the methodology of forecasting with log-linearised DSGE models using Bayesian methods. We focus on the estimation of their predictive distributions, with special attention being paid to the mean and the covariance matrix of h-steps ahead forecasts. In the empirical...
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Measuring and Explaining Government Inefficiency in Developing Countries
van de Sijpe, Nicolas; Rayp, Glenn - 2005
We show the relevance of government expenditure inefficiency using the Barro (1990) model. We estimate government inefficiency for 52 developing countries using a data envelopment analysis. The estimated inefficiencies are subsequently used in a general to specific approach in order to identify...
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Influence of rural development policy targets on farm efficiency: An efficiency study of labour intensive grape growing family farms
Manevska-Tasevska, Gordana; Hansson, Helena - 2010
The aim of this study was to provide an empirical analysis of the performance of Macedonian grape-growing family farms assessed in terms of technical, allocative, and economic efficiency and to relate aspects targeted in the Rural Development Program (RDP) to the efficiency scores. The study was...
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A Target-Oriented Data Envelopment Analysis for Energy-Environment Efficiency Improvement in Japan
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2013
This paper aims to offer a quantitative contribution to energy-environment policy in Japan in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power accident. In the meantime, nuclear power supply has almost entirely been banned, with the consequence that an intensive search for alternative forms of...
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Efficiency of Mobile Network Operators from a Data Service Perspective
Reddy, Manohar Bayyapu; Bielov, Constantine; Finley, … - 2019
in mobile data services from the view of regulation policies, spectrum management, market competition and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113526
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Combined Use of BSC and DEA Methods for Measuring Organizational Efficiency
Bošković, Aleksandra; Krstić, Ana - 2018
Although financial indicators are most often used to measure organizational efficiency, contemporary research suggests that more consideration should be given to non-material factors that can be enveloped by different non-parametric techniques. However, there is no method powerful enough to...
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