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Calling the Greek Referendum on the nose with Google Trends

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...

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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...

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Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...

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Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search

Askitas, Nikos - 2016

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Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

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Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...

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Corporate managers and their potential younger successors: An examination of their values

Mihelic, Katharina Katja; Lipicnik, Bogdan - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 15 (2010) 4, pp. 288-311

Human values are individual characteristics that vary in importance and serve as guiding principles in a person's life. The purpose of this paper is to identify the values held today by Slovenian managers and students and contributes to the few studies that have examined the influence of age on...

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Leadership and productivity in transition: Employees' view in Serbia

Pecujlija, Mladen; Azemovic, Nedzad; Azemovic, Resad; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 16 (2011) 3, pp. 251-263

became a shareholders' association. The study aims to find out the preferred pattern of leader's behaviour as a predictor of … employees' productive behaviour. Obtained results suggest that it is essential for increased productivity that the employees … production quality, leader's helpfulness and expectations have proved variables in their behaviour that directly influence …

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Income, income inequality and health: Evidence from China

Li, Hongbin; Zhu, Yi - 2006

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier literature has drawn on data from developed...

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A Cognitive Approach to Organizational Complexity

Fioretti, Guido; Visser, Bauke - 2004

Organizational theory has construed complexity as an objective characteristic of either the structure or the behaviour …

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