At a time when tourism is the preeminent global industry, the Mediterranean is one of the most important tourist regions in the world, accounting for approximately a third of total tourism revenues and half of international arrivals. Because the traditional sun, sand, and sea tourist product of the Mediterranean is experiencing a crisis with subsequent market shifts toward other regions and alt...

in different regions, precipitation takes place with different persistencies and every persistency supplies a share of rainfall days and precipitation. therefore, the importance of rainfall persistence could be evaluated in all places. iran is located in mid-latitude of an arid region, in which the mean rainfall is 250 mm and it has dramatic tempo-spatial changes. rainfalls with short persisten...

The main purpose of this study was to identify and analyze factors affecting development of entrepreneurship in complementary and processing industries of citrus products at Khouzestan province, Iran. The Statistical population of this study consisted of all managers in processing and complementary industries of citrus products in Khouzestan province (N=89). By census method all managers were s...

Based on the data of A-share listed companies in China, this paper examines how China’s regional carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) affects resource allocation efficiency provincial heavily polluted industries through DID method. The empirical results show that ETSs have reduced TFP dispersion enterprises industry, thus improving industries’ efficiency. heterogeneity analysis shows more sign...

The majority of skill-upgrading in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s was due to within industry shifts in skill-intensity. Traditional trade theory, represented by the HeckscherOhlin model, predicts that trade affects relative employment primarily by shifting resources across industries. For this reason, many economists have concluded that international trade has played a minor rol...

explaining dividend policy has been one of the most difficult challenges facing financial economists. despite decades of study, we have yet to completely understand the factors that influence dividend policy and the manner in which these factors interact.the aim of this paper is to examine the relation between dividend policy and share price volatility in tehran stock exchange (tse). the analys...

In principle, a VAT should be neutral with regards to both the level and composition of exports. In practice, this may not be the case because exporters in many countries receive incomplete VAT refunds. When VAT refunds are incomplete, the exports of industries that rely heavily on intermediate goods are especially likely to be negatively a ected by a VAT. Motivated by these considerations, thi...

Firms in information technology (IT) intensive industries rely on IT investments to improve the quality of their products and services. Competing firms in these industries need to consider two opposing effects when they make IT investment decisions. The declining cost and improving performance of IT over time provides the later entrant a potential cost advantage. On the other hand, the first en...

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