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institutions devised to discourage it. The analytical framework used to explore the symmetric tragedies of the commons and the … and it can be discouraged by the introduction of competition among corrupt agents to turn it into a tragedy of the commons …
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We explore commons problems when agents have access to capital markets. The commons has a high intrinsic rate of return … are secure. In a two period model, we assess the consequences of market access for the commons' survival and welfare; we … strategic, extinction dates are unique. Strategic agents generally earn their surplus by delaying the commons' extinction; in …
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We study extinction in a commons problem in which agents have access to capital markets. When the commons grows more … quickly than the interest rate, multiple equilibria are found for intermediate commons endowments. In one of these, extinction …' equilibrium, increases it in the other equilibrium in which the commons is eventually depleted, and expands the set of commons …
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The target of this paper is to question the causes of software intellectual property rights violation. To solve this … culture, institutions and technology matter in the development of IPR protection policy even more than traditional variables …
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The violation of intellectual property rights (IPR) is a transnational economic and legal problem. This problem could … account the educational, cultural and institutional context. The results suggest that education, culture and institutions …
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Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
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Latin America will support the FTAA if it sees this project as a way of creating the conditions for improved growth performance and declining poverty. In searching for these objectives with effectiveness, this paper calls attention to some of the conditions that are necessary in order for...
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La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...
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Le terme `logiciel libre' désigne à la fois un bien -- le logiciel -- indispensable au fonctionnement des sociétés modernes informatisées, et un mode de production et de distribution -- libre. Ce mode de production et de distribution est suffisamment original pour poser des problèmes...
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This paper examines the choice of license terms along the development of a piece of software. Three licenses are compared, the proprietary one, the Berkeley Software Distribution, and the General Public License. The choice of one or the other license depends on the characteristics of the...
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