Five Nordic municipal examples -- References -- Methods and validation of results -- Nordic overview -- Preface -- -- Combined analyses of challenges and strategies in use in the Nordics -- Spatial planning for second homes -- Summary.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Cases and Issues -- Figures, Tables and Plates -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Nordic Tourism: Introduction to Key Concepts -- 2. Tourism Marketing -- 3. Nordic Tourism Governance and Planning Issues -- 4. Urban Tourism -- 5. Rural Tourism: Tourism as...

We investigate the causal effect of the asymmetric criminalization of prostitution on sex tourism. We exploit legal reforms in five countries that switched from systems where prostitution was legal (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Canada), or where only buying sex was legal (France), to the "Nordic...

This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...