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File-Sharing, Sampling, and Music Distribution
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004
The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common since the arrival of Napster. P2P networks may actually improve the matching between products and buyers - we call this the matching effect. For a label the downside of P2P networks...
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File-Sharing, Sampling, and Music Distribution
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common since the arrival of Napster. P2P networks may actually improve the matching between products and buyers - we call this the matching effect. For a label the downside of P2P networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835223
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File-sharing, sampling, and music distribution
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004 - This version: December 2004
The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common since the arrival of Napster. P2P networks may actually improve the matching between products and buyers - we call this the matching effect. For a label the downside of P2P networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366574
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Where has the Rum gone? : firms' choice of transport mode under the threat of maritime piracy
Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai; Yang, Shuyao - 2018
Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding … customs data with information on pirate attacks to investigate how exporting firms respond to maritime piracy. It finds that … overall exports along a particular shipping route fall following an increase in pirate activity. In addition, piracy induces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962189
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Pirates of the Mediterranean : an empirical investigation of bargaining with asymmetric information
Ambrus, Attila; Chaney, Eric; Salitskiy, Igor - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 1, pp. 217-246
We investigate the effect of delay on prices in bargaining situations using a data set containing thousands of captives ransomed from Barbary pirates between 1575 and 1692. Plausibly exogenous variation in the delay in ransoming provides ev- idence that negotiating delays decreased the size of...
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Dangerous waters : the economic toll of piracy on maritime shipping
Molina, Renato; Villaseñor-Derbez, Juan Carlos; … - 2024
Maritime transport has been historically susceptible to piracy. While broad assessments suggest the impact of modern … piracy causes large economic losses, the literature lacks quantification of the magnitude of the costs and the behavioral …
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Financial requirements for nationwide fibre access coverage
Jay, Stephan; Plueckebaum, Thomas - 2011
It is common knowledge that Next Generation Access (NGA) networks require significant investments and that for many regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. Taking note of the broadband strategies formulated by European governments the deployment cost is...
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Determinants of borrowers' default in P2P lending under consideration of the loan risk class
Polena, Michal; Regner, Tobias - 2016
We study the determinants of borrowers' default in P2P lending with a new data set consisting of 70,673 loan observations from Lending Club. Previous research identified a number of default determining variables but did not distinguish between different loan risk levels. We define four loan risk...
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Peer to peer: The commons manifesto
Bauwens, Michel; Kostakis, Vasilis; Pazaitis, Alex - 2019
Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099796
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A fuzzy approach to risk based decision making
Hussain, Omar; Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; … - 2006
Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a decision has to be made. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction the trusting agent, in order to analyse the...
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