Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …

shows that network externalities play a major role in the use of standards, and that, on the other hand, worldwide standards …

One of the drivers of green consumerism are social network externalities that are associated with buying 'green …' because green consumerism is fashionable, or because of reputation effects. We analyze how the strength of this social network … network of green consumers. Depending on the strength of the social network effect, we show that (a) firms may produce lower …

We propose the dynamic network effect (DNE) model for the study of high-dimensional multivariate time series data … of latent stochastic network effects. The parameter-driven, nonlinear state-space model requires simulation …-section dimension is large and the network is dense. An empirical application on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic through …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … industrial revolution. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of individual growth … country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging …

This paper examines the small world hypothesis. The first part of the paper presents empirical evidence on the … evolution of a particular world: the world of journal publishing economists during the period 1970-2000. We find that in the … 1970's the world of economics was a collection of islands. Two decades later, in the 1990's the world of economics was much …