This paper postulates that a country's competitiveness is sticky, i.e. it does not react immediately to changes in underlying framework conditions. The causes of this stickiness can be categorized along three dimensions. First, there is a delay between policy actions and their impact on...

Cost allocation problems on networks can be interpreted as cooperative games on a graph structure. In the classical standard tree game, the cost of a service delivered, by a source has to be allocated between homogeneous users at the vertices. But, modern networks have also the capacity to...