How extended hotel brands affect the Lodging Portfolio

Macroeconomic Environment and Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment of Hotel Brands

Th e powerful attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is particularly important for further development of tourism. Th e strategically focused attraction of FDI in tourism has a much higher signifi cance because of the multiple eff ects in relation to other segments of the economy. In this context, it is necessary to highlight the investment engagement and the presence of globally branded...

How Public Funding and Firms’ Innovation Strategies Affect the Innovation of the Spanish Hotel Industry

This article examines the way in which the Spanish hotel industry has responded to government aid and to the use of new technological strategies in order to improve its ability to innovate. Using the Survey on Technological Innovation (Encuesta sobre innovación tecnológica, 2000), carried out by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics under the guidelines of Eurostat and the Oslo Manual, h...

Leaving "Hotel California": How Incentives Affect Flows of Benefits in the Netherlands

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Does health affect portfolio choice?

A number of recent studies find that poor health is empirically associated with a safer portfolio allocation. It is difficult to say, however, whether this relationship is truly causal. Both health status and portfolio choice are influenced by unobserved characteristics such as risk attitudes, impatience, information, and motivation, and these unobserved factors, if not adequately controlled fo...