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...

As the current growth economy has created severe environmental pollution and unbalanced distribution of prosperity, there is an increasing amount of critical voices calling for a change. The new concept of degrowth addresses a fundamental change in political, economic and institutional levels...

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...

Abstract: This paper analyzes a model with two firms (providers), and two classes of customers. These customers classes are characterized by their attitude towards `congestion' (caused by other customers using the same resources); a firm is selected on the basis of both the prices charged by the...

We propose a two-country monopolistic competition model of business service offshoring that captures the advantage conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i.e., domestic service provision or service offshoring)....

The Chinese telecommunications market is undergoing fundamental changes as it moves from state ownership to privatization. These changes have resulted in numerous ambiguous policies being announced, often by the same regulatory body. A key question is how management deals with these ambiguous...

To efficiently realize a specified goal in a distributive fashion, there needs to be an appropriate 'division of labor.' This is true for distributive algorithms that take advantage of the concurrent features of the new generation of computers. This is true in the design of a complex...

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...

To date, little is known about how information flows within farmer groups and how extension interventions could be designed to deliver combined information on agriculture and nutrition. This study uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and...