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The Effects of Coworker Heterogeneity on Firm-Level Output: Assessing the Impacts of Cultural and Language Diversity in the National Hockey League

Kahane, Leo; Longley, Neil; Simmons, Robert - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 302-314

This paper uses data from the National Hockey League (NHL) to consider the potential gains to firms from employing culturally diverse work teams. It finds that the presence of foreign workers does increase firm-level performance: NHL teams that employed a higher proportion of European players...

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Super Golfonomics

Shmanske, Stephen - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

economic and statistical analysis of the sport of golf for three main purposes, (1) For the enjoyment of golfers and fans of … professional golf, (2) to teach a little economics and show how it can be used to analyze the game of golf, and (3) to use golf … statistics and golf course statistics to comment on social, political, and economic issues like gender discrimination …

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The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports

Grant, Randy R; Leadley, John C; Zygmont, Zenon X - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Why do universities place so much emphasis on athletics? Are the salaries of head coaches excessive? Should student-athletes be paid? Why is there so much cheating in college sports? Should athletic departments be subsidized by the university? Does Title IX unfairly discriminate against men's...

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Le tourisme durable une organisation du tourisme en milieu rural

François, Hugues - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2004) 1, pp. 57-80

2002 is a key year for sustainable tourism because of its international recognition at Johannesburg Summit. This one is due to tourism actors? mobilisation. However, multiple initiatory make sustainable tourism difficult to understand, mainly about production offered. When one analyse both...

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Enjeux sociaux et environnementaux du développement du tourisme urbain

Dubois, Ghislain; Ceron, Jean-Paul - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2001) 5, pp. 831-860

This article starts by recalling the trends in urban tourism within the last two decades in France, thereby insisting on the shortcomings of definitions and the difficulties in measuring. It shows how policies fostering tourism lead to a competitive struggle between cities. However towns...

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Committee Bias and Market Inefficiency, Evidence from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament

Douglas, Christopher C. - In: The Journal of Economics 40 (2014) 2, pp. 1-17

Various studies find evidence that the NCAA men’s basketball section committee exhibits bias in the seeding of teams for the “March Madness” basketball tournament. Fewer studies examine whether March Madness betting markets are efficient. Using a decade’s worth of NCAA and point spread...

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Crowding Perception in a Tourist City: A Question of Preference

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding concept, as is often assumed, is examined through...

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The Impact of China on Stock Returns and Volatility in the Taiwan Tourism Industry

Chang, Chia-Lin; Hsu, Hui-Kuang; McAleer, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2014). Volume 29(C), pages 381-401. This paper investigates the stock returns and volatility size effects for firm performance in the Taiwan tourism industry, especially the impacts arising...

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Assessment of Tourist Competitiveness by analysing Destination Efficiency

Cracolici, Francesca; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Recently the notion and the measurement of destination competitiveness have received increasing attention in the economics literature on tourism. The reason for this interest emerges from both the increasing economic importance of the tourist sector and the increasing competition on the tourist...

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Regional Efficiency Improvement by Means of Data Envelopment Analysis through Euclidean Distance Minimization including Fixed Input Factors - An Application to Tourist Regions in I...

Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the article in Papers in Regional Science (2011). Volume 90, issue 1, pages 67-90. Standard Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is characterized by uniform proportional input reduction or output augmentation in calculating improvement projections. This paper develops a new Euclidean...

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