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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...

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The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales: Cross-Section Evidence

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2004

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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 … technological protection of digital music and describes new business models as well as consumers' attitude towards music downloads … and audio-streaming. We conclude the guide by a discussion of the evolution of the music industry. …

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Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2003

copies provide information about the originals may be useful for the analysis of digital music copying. …

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Timing of Kindness - Evidence from a Field Experiment

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - CESifo - 2014

We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009

This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures...

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Hidden Benefits of Reward: A Field Experiment on Motivation and Monetary Incentives

Kvaløy, Ola; Nieken, Petra; Schöttner, Anja - CESifo - 2013

We conduct a field experiment in a controlled work environment to investigate the effect of motivational talk and its interaction with monetary incentives. We find that motivational talk significantly improves performance only if it is accompanied by performance pay. Moreover, performance pay...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - CESifo - 2009

This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...

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Money Matters - Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social interactions may be important because children enjoy spending time with other children or parents learn from other parents about the ability of their children. Identification is based on...

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