This paper examines the determinants of visitors’ expenditure behaviour at cultural events. The authors analyse visitors’ expenditure at the micro-level, dividing it into expenditure on accommodation and expenditure on food and beverages. The explicative variables taken into account are socio-demographic, economic, psychological and trip–related attributes. An ad hoc survey was conducted on the...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the major factors that influence Chinese students’ decision-making of an overseas study destination. The major education markets are USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany France and Japan. Chinese students constitute the largest proportion of international students in the world education market accounting for about 14% of the total market (UNESCO 2006...

The saturation of the domestic market is one of the factors which drive firms to expand their business to other markets. Franchising is one of the formats adopted by companies when establishing their internationalization strategy. Spain is a country where franchising is strongly consolidated. This degree of maturity means that many chains seek other countries in which to operate. This work's sp...

Abstract: This paper investigates a decision-making problem consisting of less-than-truckload dynamic pricing (LTLDP) under Physical Internet (PI). PI can be seen as the interconnection of logistics networks via open PI-hubs, which can be considered as spot freight markets where LTL requests of different volume/destination continuously arrive over time for a short-stay. Carriers can bid for the...

We study the positive implications of commodity taxation and tax harmonization under the destination and origin principles when firms are monopolistic competitors facing variable demand elasticity and segmented markets. Our emphasis is on the international location of firms in the presence of market size asymmetries and trade costs. Under the destination principle, an increase in the tax rate o...

This paper analyzes how exporters are affected by corporate tax reforms in destination markets. We introduce policy a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition export markets with lower rates. competitive effect induces to reduce the number exported products skew their sales towards better performing varieties. estimate effects taxes on dynamics exploit...

Reactive routing protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks usually discover routes by disseminating control packets across the entire network; this technique is known as brute-force flooding. This paper presents NARD, which stands for neighbor-assisted route discovery protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. In NARD, a source node floods a limited portion of the network searching not only for the destin...

This paper estimates the effects of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets. We derive an econometric specification which includes product and destination-specific indices of competition between China and its developing country competitors. Our empirical strategy allows us to exploit the variation--afforded by disaggregated trade data--across exporters,...

This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the interaction of firm characteristics and external conditions. An important distinction is made between general exporting activity and export to developed countries. Firm features and specific export experience are found to be important in determining the international orientation of manufacturers and the dest...

This paper explores the role of a firm's product and/or market export experience and experimentation for survival new product-destination spells, using firm-level Spanish customs data over period 1997–2015. Previous research has documented positive impact on survival. contributes to extant literature by unravelling distinct effect ongoing accumulated (i.e., from start spell), previous destinati...