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Logistic optimization in tourism networks

Frias, Armindo; Cabral, João; Costa, Álvaro - 2015

their endogenous features, improving the optimization of investments in transport networks and the infrastructure that …

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Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure

Colussi, Tommaso - 2015

This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified based on their academic histories. Results show that an...

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Cross-border migration and travel: A virtuous relationship

Poot, Jacques - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

The ongoing relationships between emigrants and their families, friends, and business contacts in their home countries can increase outbound and inbound cross-border travel, while cross-border tourism and business and study trips can trigger migration. New communication technologies, such as...

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The impact of networks, segregation and diversity on migrants' labour market integration

Horvath, Thomas; Huber, Peter - 2013

We analyse the role of ethnic networks, segregation and diversity of a region on migrants' success in integration into … the host countries' labour markets. We find a robust negative impact of ethnic networks on unemployment probabilities of …-education our results are less robust, but in their majority point to a negative impact of ethnic networks on the probability of …

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Correlations between biofuels and related commodities: A taxonomy perspective

Krištoufek, Ladislav; Janda, Karel; Zilberman, David - 2012

In this paper, we analyze the relationships between the prices of biodiesel, ethanol and related fuels and agricultural commodities with a use of minimal spanning trees and hierarchical trees. We find that in short-term, both ethanol and biodiesel are very weakly connected with the other...

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Technology adoption and herding behavior in complex social networks

Švarcová, Natalie; Švarc, Petr - 2008

networks with different topologies: random networks, small-world networks and scale-free networks. Agents sequentially choose …

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Stakeholder networks of foreign investors in Russia: An empirical study among German firms

Holtbrügge, Dirk; Puck, Jonas F. - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 14 (2009) 4, pp. 369-394

One important success factor of foreign firms in Russia is the establishment of efficient networks with non …-market stakeholders. Stakeholder networks may help foreign firms to obtain relevant information, accelerate administrative decisionmaking … and reduce political risks. The objective of this study is to analyze the stakeholder networks between German investors in …

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The development of small enterprises in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and the Russian Federation

Dittrich, Eckhard J.; Schrader, Heiko; Stojanov, Christo - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 2, pp. 129-153

During the past, the evaluation of the chances of economic transformation and development of Eastern Europe was largely shaped by the view on the modernization and organizational restructuring of large enterprises/combines. Various scholars were sceptical how far these could contribute to a...

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Emergence of innovation networks from R&D cooperation with endogenous absorptive capacity

Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2013

This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …

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Product Differentiation on Roads: Second-Best Congestion Pricing with Heterogeneity under Public and Private Ownership

Verhoef, Erik T.; Small, Kenneth A. - 1999

We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous users and allowing for elasticdemand. Heterogeneity is represented by a continuum of values of time. Thenetwork consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows us to...

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