Over the last decade the Internet has grown to the point of pervading everyday commodities in developed countries’ households and of transforming, with different diffusion rates and adoption modalities, the communication landscapes in their developing counterparts. The number of broadband...

Connectivity, the characterising feature of the Internet, requires the definition of access prices, transit charges, among connected operators. However, for many information exchanges, the network hierarchies in the Internet are not fixed: two providers can be simultaneously supplier and...

This book is a collaborative effort by researchers from Japan, Italy, and the US which seeks to explore the question of why firms congregate in certain regions. The studies in the book present real examples of industrial clusters, adding anecdotal evidence to the emerging theory of economic...