infonet-economy

Accessing online health content of high quality and reliability presents challenges. Laypersons cannot easily differentiate trustworthy content from misinformed or manipulated content. This article describes complementary approaches for members of the general public and health professionals to find trustworthy content with as little bias as possible. These include the Khresmoi health...

We examine whether the percentage of independent members sitting on the audit committee, in different institutional settings, impacts the market reaction (measured by the abnormal stock returns variance and the abnormal trading volume) to earnings announcements. For our sample composed of more than 7’500 earnings announcements made by European firms from 15 countries between 2006 and...

The way tourists organize their travels is evolving day after day. While in the past, information was more obtained by the support of tour operators, nowadays this is mainly ob-tained through the Internet. Among many options, on the Internet it is possible to get information about interesting things a place has and to make reservations. This new touristic paradigm brings attractive...

Companies are increasingly targeted by stakeholders for their tax behavior. In this context, the IAS 12 standard requires the disclosure of a tax proof to reconcile the effective tax rate with the theoretical tax rate. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of institutional pressures on the information disclosed in the tax proof. We use archival data from a sample of...

This article examines the price determinants of wine on the Swiss market using a hedonic regression approach. We find that grape varietals and wine growing regions have a large impact on prices. Growing Petite Arvine or growing wine in Valais or the Swiss German part of the country trigger a premium. Cultivating Pinot Noir or Gamay or being located in Vaud or Geneva prompts a...

The objective of this paper is to assess the precise impact of status on prices of Bordeaux fine wines. We identify several variables that can be used to model a wine’s status and make use of the coexistence of the longstanding 1855 classification in Pauillac and the very short-lived 1943 classification in Pomerol to examine the effect of status on the wine market. Overall, we show...

Despite the prevalence of peer-to-peer accommodation-sharing platforms, what incentivizes individual hosts to expand their listings on platforms such as Airbnb remains unknown. This study investigates the economic/financial, social, and community incentive of hosts to expand listings and the interplay among these incentives in driving the listing expansion. Using large-scale but...

Tourism is a data rich domain and the tourism industry is one of the core areas where effective use of data analytics can change the way business is done. Tourism businesses have recognized the importance of big data analysis, but they face an incredible volume and variety of data to work with. Although the amount of data available today is increasing exponentially, organizations...