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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417
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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?
Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407748
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How Well Do Patent Citations Measure Flows of Technology? Evidence from French Innovation Surveys
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Megan, MacGARVIE - EconWPA - 2004
Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research … diffusing outward from the patenting entity. Until now, there exists little evidence on whether or not patent citations are a … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118706
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Does patenting increase the private incentives to innovate? A microeconometric analysis
Emmanuel, DUGUET; Claire, LELARGE - EconWPA - 2004
, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of … a censored trivariate Probit model. We reach two main conclusions. First, the value of patent rights increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118819
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Plastic Clashes: Competition among Closed and Open Systems in the Credit Card Industry.
Manenti, Fabio M.; Somma, Ernesto - EconWPA - 2002
This paper analyses market competition between two different types of credit card platforms: not-for-profit associations and proprietary systems. The main focus is on the role of the interchange fee set by not-for-profit platforms. We show that when the interchange fee is set so as to maximise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076892
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The Determinants of Optimal Interchange Fees in Payment Systems
Wright, Julian - EconWPA - 2001
A fundamental aspect of any open payment system is the interchange fee that is paid from the merchant's bank to the cardholder's bank. Using a model in which there is partial participation by heterogeneous consumers and merchants, this paper characterizes the output maximizing, profit maximizing...
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Profit maximisation and alternatives in oligopolies
Klemm, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyses oligopolies using the Cournot/Stackelberg framework, but allowing some firms to be pursueing aims other than profit maximisation. The existence of even a single output maximising firm can have dramatic effects on outputs, prices and welfare, even if such a firms faces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134543
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Intrinsic Motivation in Open Source Software Development
Bitzer, Jürgen; Schrettl, Wolfram; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - EconWPA - 2005
This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young and motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that once OSS development is understood as the private provision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407718
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Japanese Public Support For Official Development Assistance
Gagen, M. J. - EconWPA - 2003
Public opinion surveys conducted since 1977 in Japan are usually interpreted as showing decreasing support among the Japanese population for Official Development Assistance (ODA), and possibly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet Office of Japan have justified recent cuts in ODA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556386
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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - EconWPA - 2004
This paper explores potential channels through which information technology (IT) affects economic development. The channel emphasized here is the reduction of transaction costs through the use of information technology. We discuss the nature of transaction costs, their possible impacts on...
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