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Burns, Natasha; Minnick, Kristina; Netter, Jeffry M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We employ a cross-country sample to examine whether cultural differences help explain gender compensation variations across corporate executives. The results show that the cultural differences, which are embedded in societies from long prior to the compensation decisions, provide significant...

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Measuring the Tolerance of the State : Theory and Application to Protest

Andirin, Veli; Neggers, Yusuf; Shadmehr, Mehdi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a measure of a regime's tolerance for an action by its citizens. We ground our measure in an economic model and apply it to the setting of political protest. In the model, a regime anticipating a protest can take a costly action to repress it. We define the regime's tolerance as the...

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Mistrust, Misperception, and Misunderstanding : Imperfect Information and Conflict Dynamics

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-degenerate higher-order beliefs) can lead to conflict and drive its dynamics. We develop our analysis in the context of three classic … learning about the opponent's type, as well as the possibility of conflict spirals, traps, and cycles; and a deterrence model …. We relate these models to the empirical literature and to current and historical episodes of conflict …

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The Simple Economics of Open Source

Lerner, Josh - 2000

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...

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Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation : Illustrations from Server Software Usage

Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; Zhuo, Ran; Greenstein, Shane M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source software, an unpriced commodity in...

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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions : Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

Schwarz, Michael - 2009

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 been described in the literature: the...

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Open Source Software : The New Intellectual Property Paradigm

Maurer, Stephen M. - 2006

Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types of inefficiencies and different biases in...

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PublicationHarvester : An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

Azoulay, Pierre - 2006

We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each researcher. Using these names along with a...

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Proprietary vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products

Gambardella, Alfonso - 2005

We study the production of knowledge when many researchers or inventors are involved, in a setting where tensions can arise between individual public and private contributions. We first show that without some kind of coordination, production of the public knowledge good (science or research...

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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond

Lerner, Josh - 2004

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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