In: Journal of travel & tourism marketing, 2021, vol. 38, no. 3, p. 326-340
A lack of cross-cultural research has been identified regarding cultural tourism promotion on social media. Using the dimensions of Collectivism-Individualism, Power Distance, and High-Context vs. Low-Context communication, we content analyze cultural value differences in Instagram posts promoting cultural tourism – published by the national tourism organizations of Chile, Portugal, USA, and...
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In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 121-142
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With data from 2001 to 2010 of the First Instance Courts of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, this paper examines the impact of Legge sull’istituzione della Pretura penale e della funzione di sostituto Procuratore pubblico (2002), which meant to improve Cantonal court performance by decreasing penal workload. Our results suggest that such law has posed non-positive effects on judicial...
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In: Rivista critica del diritto privato, 2013, vol. 31, no. 1, p. 123-138
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In: RAE: Revista asturiana de economía, 2012, no. 46, p. 155-164
En una economía formada por dos individuos, un bien posicional es un bien tal que lo que un individuo consume en cantidad positiva debe ser consumida por el otro en la misma cantidad negativa. De este modo, los bienes posicionales constituyen el caso opuesto al de los bienes públicos. Por ejemplo, si un individuo consume más de un bien público, todos los agentes consumirán más de ese...
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In: The review of financial studies, 2009, vol. 22, no. 10, p. 4157-4188
This paper studies the term structure implications of a simple structural model in which the representative agent displays ambiguity aversion, modeled by Multiple Priors Recursive Utility. Bond excess returns reflect a premium for ambiguity, which is observationally distinct from the risk premium of affine yield curve models. The ambiguity premium can be large even in the simplest log-utility...
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In: Energy economics, 2009, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 306-315
This study presents an empirical analysis of the cost efficiency of a sample of Swiss multi-utilities operating in the distribution of electricity, natural gas and water. The multi-utilities that operate in different sectors are characterized by a strong unobserved heterogeneity. Therefore the measurement of their performance poses an important challenge for the regulators. The purpose of...
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In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of an artificial institution. Within such an approach, we first reformulate a previously proposed commitment-based semantics for ACLs. In particular we show that all commonly used types of communicative acts can be defined in terms...
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This paper examines the productive efficiency of the hospital sector in Switzerland. A panel data of 214 general hospitals over the four-year period between 1998 and 2001 has been analyzed. A descriptive analysis of the data casts some light on differences across hospital types especially regarding case mix severity and length of hospitalizations. The final sample used for the cost frontier...
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