Network production, efficiency and technological options: toward a new dynamic theory of telecommunications

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 177-201

  Marini, Giovanni ^a   Pannone, Andrea ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Fund flow model; Network production; Qualitative changes; Technological options

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004740550     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10438599800000033     Document Type: Article

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