Do Hotels Benefit from Agglomeration?

Do Organizations Benefit from e-Workers

In the digitally connected world of today a whole new set of relations between people has been defined which has not left the business environment untouched. Among the outcomes of this trend with unknown positive potentials and, certainly, weaknesses worthy of deeper studies is the newlydiscussed topic of e-workers. Though, there have been certain issues discussed by researchers in this field; ...

Add-on Policies Under Vertical Differentiation: Why Do Luxury Hotels Charge for Internet While Economy Hotels Do Not?

This paper examines firms’ product policies when they sell an add-on (Internet service) to a base good (hotel rooms) under vertical differentiation (fourvs. three-star hotels). Theoretical analysis uncovers the differential roles of add-ons for vertically differentiated firms. A firm with higher base quality always sells an add-on as optional so that higher-taste consumers self-select to buy it...

Do Retailers Benefit from Deploying Customer Analytics?

Do Retailers Benefit from Deploying Customer Analytics? Frank Germann a,∗, Gary L. Lilien b,1, Lars Fiedler c,2, Matthias Kraus d,3 a Department of Marketing, 395 Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA b Department of Marketing, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, 468 Business Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA c McKinsey & C...

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Monopolistic Competition Models of Urban Agglomeration

Many sources of urban agglomeration involve departures from the first-best world. The benefit evaluation of a transportation project must then take into account agglomeration benefits along with any direct user benefits. Using a monopolistic competition model of differentiated intermediate products, we show that the additional benefits can be expressed as an extended Harberger formula with vari...

Who Benefits from Agglomeration?