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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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Die ökonomischen Eigenschaften von Software

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Software ist ein Gut, welches besondere ökonomische Eigenschaften aufweist. In diesem Artikel werden - ausgehend von … einer allgemeinen Definition des Gutes Software - systematisch zentrale ökonomische Eigenschaften herausgearbeitet, welche … subsummieren: Software als System zur Datenverarbeitung, Software als System von Befehlen bzw. Anweisungen, Software als …

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Volkswirtschaftliche Aspekte der Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung

Pasche, Markus; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Das Papier charakterisiert die spezifischen Eigenschaften des Gutes Software. Als Alternative zur Bereitstellung von … Software über Märkte werden die Charakteristika der "freien" Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung dargestellt, bei der die … Konsumentenpräferenzen aufweist. Das Papier ist gleichzeitig ein kritischer Kommentar zur Open-Source-Software-Studie von Kalwey u.a. (2003). …

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The Economic Properties of Software

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. <br> In this … to a subadditive cost function to nonrivalry. Particularly to emphasise is the fact that software fundamentally differs …Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting …

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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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