Platforms that are understood as a place or system coordinating the interaction of different stakeholders (e.g., service consumers and providers) may enable widespread adoption of IoT services and applications. However, the lack of interoperability between platforms may inhibit the diffusion of...

In this paper, we use a unique database on switching between mobile handsets in a sample of about 5,000 subscribers using tariffs without commitment from a single mobile operator on monthly basis between March 2012 and December 2014. We estimate discrete choice model in which we account for...

he economic concept of networks refers to the structure of agents` interaction as well as to the economic property of positive externalities. This book describes the economics of networks from various perspectives among which are¤ classical approaches, methods derived from physics, theory of...

Die deutsche Wiedervereinigung und die Systemtransformation in Rußland stehen für zwei große Herausforderungen beim institutionellen, wirtschaftlichen und wirtschaftspolitischen Umbau industrialisierter Volkswirtschaften. Ausgewäh¤lte unternehmerische, juristische und politische...