This paper study the relationships between tourism and economic growth by introducing a dynamic model whose ingredients are an economy producing a non-traded consumption good consumed by domestic residents and foreign tourists and a capital good. The model analyses the relationships between...

The paper proposes a new way of analysing the efficiency of dynamic market selection, based on the persistence of scale economies. The new methodology is used to investigate the causes of stagnating productivity growth in EU business services. The persistence of scale-related inefficiencies is...

Differences in the growth of firms remain a major topic in economics and strategy research.In this paper we investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point of view and then we analyze the relationship between...

Derivation of Minimum Batch size to minimize WIP and Cycle Time R

The Ohno Criterion states that WIP with faster velocities have lower cost than WIP with average slower velocities, in manufacturing cycles per unit time: v=G/W where W= number of pieces of Work In Process Inventory (WIP), and G = rate at which pieces exit from WIP to finished goods per unit...

Professionalität im Management von kleinen und mittleren Vereinen weist einen deutlichen Zusammenhang mit ihrer Ressourcenlage und dem Grad ihrer Zielerreichung auf. Am Beispiel von Schweizer Sportvereinen lässt sich zeigen, dass sich die erfolgreicheren Vereine insbesondere durch eine...

The sector business services contributes directly and indirectly to aggregate economic growth in Europe. The direct contribution comes from the sector’s own dynamism. Though the business-services industry appears to be characterised by strong cyclical volatility, there was also a strong...

If other things be constant, more extensive and timely disclosure should result in more accurate evaluation of firm's risks. However, there is a lack of research that investigates how effective various reforms in disclosure regulation is in terms of evaluating corporate risks. This lack of...

In order to increase the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the European Union Member States, the European Commission, on the initiative of Commissioner E. Liikannen, launched in December 1999 a bold programme called “eEurope”. Soon after its creation, the eEurope...

We study a Hotelling location game where media platforms compete with the same content in two separate markets. The findings show that media platforms may provide less differentiated content if the non-negativity constraint on prices is binding in at least one market. Moreover, content...