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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...

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Political Parties and Network Formation

Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2006

We argue that anticorruption laws may provide an efficiency rationale for why political parties should meddle in the distribution of political nominations and government contracts. Anticorruption laws forbid trade in spoils that politicians distribute. However, citizens may pay for gaining...

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Experimentation in Two-Sided Markets

Peitz, Martin; Rady, Sven; Trepper, Piers - CESifo - 2015

We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...

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A Survey of the Economic Role of Software Platforms in Computer-Based Industries

Evans, David S.; Hagiu, Andrei; Schmalensee, Richard - CESifo - 2004

Software platforms are a critical component of the computer systems underpinning leading– edge products ranging from third– generation mobile phones to video games. After describing some key economic features of computer systems and software platforms, the paper presents case studies of...

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Optimal Environmental Policy with Network Effects: Will Pigovian Taxation Lead to Excess Inertia?

Greaker, Mads; Midttømme, Kristoffer - CESifo - 2014

We study a dynamic model with two competing durable goods; one dirty, the other clean. Due to network effects a consumer who adopts the dirty good today will increase the incentive future consumers have to adopt the dirty good. Thus, a consumer who chooses the dirty good, in a sense causes more...

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On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms - Which Sourcing Mode for which Input?

Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2012

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the “indirect … outsourcing of the “less important” supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer …

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Redistributive Income Taxation under Outsourcing and Foreign Direct Investment

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will …

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