Der Tourismus rechnet wegen seines hohen Beitrags zu Wirtschaftsleistung und Beschäftigung seit Jahrzehnten zu den größten globalen Wirtschaftssektoren. Obwohl er in erster Linie als wirtschaftliches Phänomen gilt, das sowohl ökologische wie soziokulturelle Problemlagen verursacht,...

In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: Growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...