piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach – Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are … applied in which piracy is instrumented with IPRs regimes (treaties), education & ICTs and government quality dynamics …

are constrained by both DRM and institutional protection related to Intellectual Property Rights. But, pervasive piracy … effects of different macroeconomic variables in the context of selected South Mediterranean countries using software piracy …

This paper focuses on the impact of maritime piracy on international trade. Piracy increases the cost of international … measures of piracy acts. We found robust evidence indicating that maritime piracy reduces the volume of trade; the effect of … cost of piracy in terms of trade destruction is estimated to be 28 billion dollars. Finally, we compare the cost of low …

, and higher late piracy incidence than implied by static models. We strengthen prior results on the impact of piracy in the … market, piracy did not contribute to diffusion and only eroded legal sales. …

launch. We identify a novel trade off in piracy's effect on welfare. We find that piracy quickens sales times and raises … welfare in fixed capacity markets, and does the opposite in growing markets. In our model, consumers benefit from piracy … not very high rates. Purchase delay, transient heterogeneity, inelastic demand, and network externalities reduce piracy …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of … piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …