Protection against pest invasion is a public good. Yet the nature of private incentives to avoid entry is poorly understood. This work shows that, due to increasing returns or network effects, private actions to avoid entry are strategic complements. This means that compulsory action, at least...

We study the effect of user incentives on software security in a network of individual users under costly patching and negative network security externalities. For proprietary software or freeware, we compare four alternative policies to manage network security: (i) consumer self-patching (where...

Public-private partnerships for the development of broadband infrastructure have been proposed as a method of increasing buildout, while addressing such issues as the digital divide and network externalities. This paper begins with a summary of the history of public/private interplay in the...

В статье дается понятие электронного бизнеса, определяется его функциональность и значение для современной экономики, рассматриваются основные вопросы...

Статья посвящена исследованию влияния сетевизации экономики и общества на институциональную систему государства. Цель статьи рассмотреть процесс...

Статья посвящена исследованию сетевой экономики как качественно новой формы экономического порядка, которая может вытеснить иерархические формы...

Providing Assured-Quality Services over data networks has been a key objective for the past few decades. Research and commercial activities have been focused on several aspects related to this main objective, such as implementing services over heterogeneous networks, providing scalable solutions...

National regulatory authorities (NRAs) attempt to encourage participation in spectrum assignments by enhancing entrants' likelihood of success. The question this study addresses is: can NRA policy tools really affect the probability an entrant wins a 3G spectrum licence? In particular, the...

Chapter I. Financial Metaverse : trading tokens, derivatives and other digital twins -- Chapter II. Market Finance -- Chapter III. Synthetic assets play a standardisation role -- Chapter IV. The economics of financial infrastructure -- Chapter V. The motivations of synthetic assets -- Chapter...