This paper analyses the importance of entrepreneurs for job creation and wage growth. Relying on unique data that cover all establishments, firms and individuals in the Danish private sector, we are able to distil a number of different subsets from the total set of new establishments – subsets...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Travel Guidebooks and Tourism Discourse -- 2. Conceptualising Travel Guidebooks -- 3. Guidebook Histories -- 4. Travel Guidebooks as Text -- 5. According to the Guidebook: Exploring Lonely Planet’s Australia -- 7. Slaves to the Guidebook? Exploring...

A fundamental problem for an economy based on a common property resource is the absence of a market to trade the resource. This implies that private costs will be below social costs. This paper investigates possible government interventions that correct for such distortions in a neoclassical...

What has been the quantitative effect on productivity growth of information and communication technology (ICT) in Europe after 1995? Based on a multi-country sectoral panel data set, we provide econometric evidence of positive and signi?cant productivity effects of ICT in Europe, mainly due to...

A fundamental problem for an economy based on a common property resource is the absence of a market to trade the resource. This implies that private costs are below social costs. This paper investigates possible government interventions that correct for such distortions in a neoclassical growth...

The private return to R&D appears to be lower than the social return. Consequently, the focus on R&D promoting policies has intensified. This paper investigates international spillover effects from country-specific R&D subsidies in an interdependent open economy model of identical countries. A...