The 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...

We try to understand why firms producing goods by means of complementary components do not merge, especially in industries in which investments in component-based knowledge matters. As Audretsch, we state that these activities are developed by “individuals” who do their best to appropriate...

The papers collected in this volume provide new insights into some important problems of monetary theory and contribute significantly to the development of a new area based on monetary policy games. In Part I the reader will find new results on some specific topics of monetary theory, which are...