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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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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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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013
Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877751
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Will the U.S. and EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2014
Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781547
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It is a Theft but not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007
on Internet downloads and black market purchases of low-quality copies like the most common form. Somewhat paradoxically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406063
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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms: Theory and Evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - CESifo - 2015
This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as...
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Why Countries Differ in Thin Capitalization Rules: The Role of Financial Development
Mardan, Mohammed - CESifo - 2015
In the absence of financial frictions, the purpose of thin capitalization rules is to limit multinational firms’ possibilities of engaging in tax planning via debt shifting. This paper analyzes the effects of thin capitalization rules in the case where firms have limited access to external...
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Secrecy Jurisdictions
Schjelderup, Guttorm - CESifo - 2015
This paper surveys tax haven legislation and links the literature on tax havens to the literature on asymmetric information. I argue that the core aim of tax haven legislation is to create private information (secrecy) for the users of tax havens. This leads to moral hazard and transaction costs...
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The Multinational Wage Premium and Wage Dynamics
Orefice, Gianluca; Sly, Nicholas; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2015
Using detailed administrative data linking French firms and workers over the years 2002-2007, we document a distinct U-shaped pattern in worker-level wages surrounding the time their employer is acquired by a foreign firm, with a dip in earnings observed for several years before domestic firms...
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Financial Frictions and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Microdata
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015
We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...
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