This paper studies the effect of a change in the marginal costs of advertising on advertising expenditures of firms and consumer prices across industries. It makes use of a unique policy change that caused a decrease of the taxation on advertising expenditures in parts of Austria and a...

The fact that Vienna is an attractive tourist destination, well known internationally is undeniable. With its imperial splendour and remarkable cultural image, Vienna has become, in the recent years, an attractive tourist destination, reaching in 2010 over 10.8 million overnights, far exceeding...

We develop a testing methodology that can be used to predict the performance of e-mail marketing campaigns in real time. We propose a split-hazard model that makes use of a time transformation (a concept we call virtual time) to allow for the estimation of straightforward parametric hazard...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate 1984-2000 Benetton advertising effectiveness. The survey was administered to 237 subjects by Computer Aided Web Interviewing in order to analyze affective (attitudes and opinions) and cognitive reactions (recall, recognition and brand awareness). The...

The study presents the key elements of the branding strategy applied by Vienna and the main target markets and the quantitative and qualitative effects, with an emphasis on the target group consisting of Romanian tourists, which is a priority market for the city. In the second part of the study,...