The Competition Game creates an environment in which individual teams must make decisions based on possibly imperfect information and with conflicting goals. The game consists of several independent rounds that may be conducted separately or in series. This gives the instructor the flexibility...

Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über: 1. Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen 2. Instrumente und Methoden der Tourismus- und Fremdenverkehrsforschung 3. Planungsinstrumentarien 4. Ziele und Aufgaben touristischer Leistungsträger 5. Fallbeispiele aus der Praxis 6. Aus- und...

Germany is the laggard of Europe, yet the country is world champion in merchandise exports. The paper tries to solve this theoretical and empirical puzzle by diagnosing a "pathological export boom" and a "bazaar effect". Excessively high wages defended by unions and the welfare state against the...

Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaar effect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a model where Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments of production, I compare a trading...