The paper analyze the impacts of infrastructure investments on clusters of directions and development trends of contacts made through the road network. The present settlement system is a particular system of interconnected elements. These connections are part of a network of accessibility which...

Mit der Verlagerung des Arbeitsplatzes in die Privatwohnung in der Covid-19-Pandemie ist die Sphäre der Erwerbsarbeit mehr oder weniger unvermittelt in den Privatbereich eingedrungen und hat nicht nur zu notwendigen Anpassungsleistungen im Wohnen geführt, sondern auch Fragen der Attraktivität...

Interoperability has become a buzzword in European policy debates on the future of the digital economy. In its Digital Agenda, the EU Commission has identified a lack of interoperability as one of the significant obstacles for the thriving of the digital economy. The EU Commission and a number...

This paper studies a mechanism design model where the players and the designer are nodes in a communication network. We characterize the communication networks (directed graphs) for which, in any environment (utilities and beliefs), every incentive compatible social choice function is partially...