There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

insurance recommendations provided by economic financial planning software and the practical application of traditional … financial planning software. The two software programs are Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner), developed by Economic Security … stylized and 4 of which are actual households. The two software programs recommend dramatically different levels of saving or …

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

to open source software, an unpriced commodity in the digital economy. The study is the first to follow usage and … upgrading of unpriced software over a long period of time. It finds evidence that software updates mislead analyses of sources … software. We analyze the largest dataset ever compiled on web server use in the United States and link it to disaggregated …

explore the rising spatial concentration of patents and identify an underlying stability in their distribution. Software …. Tech centers also account for a growing share of non-software patents, but the reallocation, by contrast, is entirely from … the five largest population centers in 1980. Non-software patenting is stable for most cities, with anchor tenants like …

software package to facilitate proper power calculations in practice …

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …

citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …

We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United …) firms around the time of important court decisions that impacted software patents, and the second analyzes the relationship … between firms' stock market value, the sector in which they operate, and their holdings of software patents. We conclude that …