This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telcoms, compared to liberalization in goods. In the presence of network externalities, it argues that if two disjoint country service networks involving a small and large country are...

The aim of this paper is to lay the foundations of 3 social influence based approach for the diffusion of an innovation or a technological standard. A model built on the principles of a neural network is proposed and a learning procedure is set up, making the network formation endogenous, the...

This is a dictionary entry forthcoming in Peter Newman, ed. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, London: Macmillan, 1998.