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Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Sobbrio, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that this impact varies across different forms of political engagement and over time. Initially, broadband had a negative effect on turnout in national elections, driven by increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950872
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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age: Economics and Methodology
Danaher, Brett; Dhanasobhon, Samita; Smith, Michael D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of copyright caused by Internet file …" questions related to digitization and the copyright industries, and discuss methodological approaches to leverage the new data … services on the demand for piracy. We use ABC's decision to add its content to Hulu.com as a natural experiment and show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264925
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Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music
Krueger, Alan B.; Connolly, Marie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
; methods for ranking performers; copyright protection; and technological change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049991
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Patent Commons, Thickets, and Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms
Wen, Wen; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Forman, Chris - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the open source software (OSS) community influences new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze the impact of The Commons--established by the Open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951134
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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy: Evidence from Windows
Athey, Susan; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper evaluates the nature, relative incidence and drivers of software piracy. In contrast to prior studies, we … analyze data that allows us to measure piracy for a specific product - Windows 7 - which was associated with a significant … level of private sector investment. Using anonymized telemetry data, we are able to characterize the ways in which piracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264924
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Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy
Hall, Bronwyn H - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710847
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The Private Value of Software Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H; MacGarvie, Megan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We investigate the value creation or destruction associated with the introduction of software patents in the United States in two ways. The first looks at the cumulative abnormal returns to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms around the time of important court decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718211
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Patents and the Survival of Internet-related IPOs
Cockburn, Iain M.; Wagner, Stefan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We examine the effect of patenting on the survival prospects of 356 internet-related firms that IPO'd at the height of the stock market bubble of the late 1990s. By March 2005, nearly 2/3 of these firms had delisted from the NASDAQ exchange. Although changes in the legal environment in the US in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720309
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Proprietary vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products
Hall, Bronwyn H; Gambardella, Alfonso - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720849
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The market value of patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms
Hall, Bronwyn H; Thoma, Grid L. D.; Torrisi, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the private value of patents and R&D in European firms during the period 1991-2004. We explore the relationship between firm's stock market value, patents, and "quality"-weighted patents issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the US Patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829911