This article presents a model of the structure of the information flows that underlie the creation of production chains between thousands of small textile firms located in Prato, central Italy. Contrary to most textile industry of western Europe and north America, Prato did not die out once...

En este trabajo se utiliza la información estadística referente a los indicadores regionales, suministrada por Eurostat, para elaborar una clasificación y caracterizar el espacio socioeconómico europeo en base a los mencionados indicadores, que, como se sabe, se refieren básicamente a datos...

Greater cross-border economic integration in many regions has caused the field of border economics to expand rapidly. It has also occurred as a consequence of growing recognition of the necessity to examine economic phenomena within the unique contexts imposed by geo-political market...

It is well-known in evolutionary game theory that population clustering in Prisoner Dilemma games allows some cooperative strategies to invade populations of stable defecting strategies. We adapt this idea of population clustering to a two-person trust game. Players are typed based on their...

La interacción virtuosa entre cooperación y competencia ha sido destacada en la literatura reciente sobre desarrollo localizado. Esencialmente, la colaboración permite superar obstáculos (tecnológicos, logísticos, de escala, etc.) que individualmente las firmas no son capaces de vencer...

Random Boolean Network has been used to find out regulation patterns of genes in organism. This approach is very interesting to use in a game such as N-Person Prisoner’s Dilemma. Here we assume that agent’s action is influenced by input in the form of choices of cooperate or defect she...