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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551013
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Digital Piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - CESifo - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727287
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The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales: Cross-Section Evidence
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765667
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The Economics of Books
Canoy, Marcel F. M.; Ours, Jan C. van; Ploeg, Frederick … - CESifo - 2005
The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766082
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An Economist’s Guide to Digital Music
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2004
In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766225
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Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2003
Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon – this can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094277
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Regulation and Internet Access in Germany
Reutter, Michael - CESifo - 2001
We explain the recent events in the German market for online access using a model of a regulated monopoly renting phone lines to retailers. Retailers offer either a linear or a flat tariff to consumers. Consumer heterogeneity leads to adverse selectiion. We show why market entry for flatrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094480
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Transparency and Tacit Collusion in a Differentiated Market
Schultz, Christian - CESifo - 2002
This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051568
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024847