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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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Punishment - and beyond
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013061
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What is an Award Worth? An Econometric Assessment of the Impact of Awards on Employee Performance
Neckermann, Susanne; Cueni, Reto; Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009
Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979427
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Wage Policy and Endogenous Wage Rigidity: A Representative View From the Inside
Agell, Jonas; Bennmarker, Helge - CESifo - 2002
have an impact on attitudes concerning effort and motivation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051594
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Why are Small Firms Different? Managers’ Views
Agell, Jonas - CESifo - 2003
care about relative pay. I argue that these findings fit with behavioral stories of incentives and motivation, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196276
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Knight Fever – Towards an Economics of Awards
Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2005
Awards in the form of orders, medals, decorations and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, economists have disregarded this kind of non-material extrinsic incentive.The demand for awards relies on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406118
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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...
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