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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Optimal Consumer Network Structure Formation under Network Effects: Seeds Controllability and Visibility

Dou, Yifan; Niculescu, Marius Florin; Wu, Dongjun - NET Institute - 2011

Understanding the process of software adoption is of paramount importance to software start-ups. We study a …

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Offshoring Software Development - Case of Indian Firms in Finland

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Jain, Monika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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The software industry in Finland

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to assess the current state of the software industry in Finland. The GDP share of the IT … industry consisted of approximately 8000 firms with 46 000 employees, of which the contribution of the software industry was 33 … 000 employees. In terms of firm size classes, the variances in profitability and productivity were large in software firms …

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Product Complexity in the Adoption of User-Customized Systems

Gamharter, Benedikt; Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

We study firm-level adoption of packaged software products of almost 4,000 UK sites between 2000 and 2003. We consider … all software used in a firm as its software product and categorize it into related, but distinct subsystems : the core … further adoptions. Architectural changes hinders adoption of some, but not all software applications. …

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The enactment of risk categories: organizing and re-organizing risk management practices in the energy industry

Scott, Susan V.; Perry, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

management software “A-Trade” was part of the shift from a traditional engineer-led culture of risk cognition to market …

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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects*

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2005

We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of a complementary good provided either by it or by another firm. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of the complementary good, i.e., the extent...

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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2004

We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of complementary goods provided either by it or by other firms. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of complementary goods, i.e., the extent of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622726

The role of perceived costs and perceived benefits in the relationship between personality and risk-related choices

Soane, Emma; Dewberry, Chris; Narendran, Sunitha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper considers how perceptions of costs and benefits can influence the association between personality and risky choice behaviour. We assessed perceptions and behaviours in six domains (ethical; investment; gambling; health and safety; recreational; social) using the DOSPERT and measured...

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