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Microstructure of Collaboration: The 'Social Network' of Open Source Software
Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data...
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Information Sharing and Cumulative Innovation in Business Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
How can we explain the success of cooperative networks of firms that share innovations, such as Silicon Valley or the Open Source community? This Paper shows that if innovations are cumulative, making an invention publicly available to a network of firms may be valuable if the firm expects to...
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Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market
Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software markets differ from standard textbook markets in three important respects that may give rise to market failures: (i) large economies of scale, (ii) crucially important...
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The Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Examination
Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Using a unique dataset we examine empirically which factors explain output per contributor in open source projects. We find that the output per contributor of open source programmes is much higher when licenses are less restrictive. Further examination suggests that the difference in output per...
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Digital Goods and the New Economy
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Digital goods are bit strings, sequences of 0s and 1s, that have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are non-rival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion
Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...
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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We study and endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R&D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones, which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...
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Transparency, Appropriability and the Early State
Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
of the state's extractive technology. We posit further that this extractive technology is determined by the transparency … transparency of the new farming technology. We then apply our theory to explain key institutional features that distinguished … of the production technology. This theory is applied to examine two principal phases in the evolution of the early state …
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The role of central bank transparency for guiding private sector forecasts
Ehrmann, Michael; Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
expectations. This paper analyses empirically whether enhanced central bank transparency lowers dispersion among professional … forecasters of key economic variables, using a large set of proxies for central bank transparency in 12 advanced economies. It … finds evidence for a significant and sizeable effect of central bank transparency on forecast dispersion, be it by means of …
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(In)Transparency of Information Acquisition: A Bargaining Experiment
Gehrig, Thomas; Güth, Werner; Levínsky, René - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We analyze how transparency affects information acquisition in a bargaining context, where proposers may chose to … excessive in all our scenarios we find that the bargaining outcome depends crucially on the transparency of the bargaining …
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