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The Impact of Aggregators on Internet News Consumption

Athey, Susan; Mobius, Markus; Pal, Jeno - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

in response to a copyright reform enacted in December 2014. We compare the news consumption of a large number of Google …

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Giorcelli, Michela - 2020

. Notably, there is no evidence of comparable benefits for extensions in copyright lengths. Complementary analyses for other …

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Rational Ignorance in Education : A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

Dee, Thomas S. - 2010

Despite the concern that student plagiarism has become increasingly common, there is relatively little objective data on the prevalence or determinants of this illicit behavior. This study presents the results of a natural field experiment designed to address these questions. Over 1,200 papers...

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Replication in Economics

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007

This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication -- checking on others' published papers using their data -- and scientific replication -- using data representing different populations in one's own work or in a Comment....

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Piracy on the Silver Screen

Rob, Rafael - 2006

New information technology has reduced marginal production and distribution costs of information goods to negligible levels and promises to revolutionize many industries. Unpaid copies of digital products can be as good as paid first-generation copies, and their availability can undermine the...

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Price Discrimination, Copyright Law, and Technological Innovation : Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs

Mortimer, Julie Holland - 2005

.S. copyright law, which effectively prevents direct price discrimination. Using data covering VHS and DVD movie distribution, I … explain studios' optimal pricing strategies under U.S. copyright law, and determine optimal pricing strategies under E ….U. copyright law, which allows for direct price discrimination. I analyze these optimal pricing strategies for both the existing …

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Does Copyright Piracy Pay? The Effects of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Does the lack of international copyrights benefit or harm developing countries? I examine the effects of U.S. copyright … changed to allow foreigners to obtain copyright protection in the United States if certain conditions were met. Thus, this … episode in American history provides us with a convenient way of investigating the consequences of international copyright …

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The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties

Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2002

Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...

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Effects of Copyrights on Science - Evidence from the US Book Republication Program

Biasi, Barbara - 2018

. Yet economic analyses continue to be rare, partly due to a lack of experimental variation in modern copyright laws. This … paper exploits a change in copyright laws as a result of World War II to examine the effects of copyrights on science. In …

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Luo, Hong - 2016

changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data …

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