piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach – Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are … applied in which piracy is instrumented with IPRs regimes (treaties), education & ICTs and government quality dynamics …

are constrained by both DRM and institutional protection related to Intellectual Property Rights. But, pervasive piracy … effects of different macroeconomic variables in the context of selected South Mediterranean countries using software piracy …

This paper develops a simple model of piracy to analyze its effects on prices and welfare and to study the optimal … may be responsible for the control of piracy. We show that copying or piracy might be welfare enhancing because it is a … to finance the development cost via the pricing scheme applied to high valuation consumers. The level of piracy control …

This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the cost of international … measures of piracy acts. We found robust evidence indicating that maritime piracy reduces the volume of trade; the effect of … cost of piracy in terms of trade destruction is estimated to be 28 billion dollars. Finally, we compare the cost of low …

, and higher late piracy incidence than implied by static models. We strengthen prior results on the impact of piracy in the … market, piracy did not contribute to diffusion and only eroded legal sales. …