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Technology and persistence in global software piracy
Asongu, Simplice; Meniago, Christelle - 2018
This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) institutions. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 99 countries for the period 1994-2010 and the Generalised Method of Moments. The...
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Global software piracy, technology and property rights institutions
Asongu, Simplice - 2020
This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183241
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Fighting software piracy : some global conditional policy instruments
Asonguab, Simplice A.; Singha, Pritam; Le Roux, Sara - 2016
indicate that GDP per capita, research and development expenditure, main intellectual property laws, multilateral treaties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440568
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The impact of software piracy on inclusive human development : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2014
This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature …. It empirically assesses the incidence of piracy on the Human Development Index (HDI) and its constituents and then the …: (1) software piracy has a negative incidence on inequality adjusted human development; (2) the unappealing effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409149
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Software piracy and scientific publications : knowledge economy evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
East Asian miracle has been largely due to weaker IPRs regimes at the early stages of development. As a policy implication …; knowledge spillovers essential for economic growth and development. More policy implications are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409241
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Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy : benchmarking IPRs harmonization
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2014
In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of current efforts towards harmonizing the standards and enforcements of Intellectual Property Rights (henceforth IPRs) protection worldwide. Our empirical exercise is based on 15...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409257
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Global dynamic timelines for IPRs harmonization against software piracy
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2013
This paper employs a recent methodological innovation on intellectual property rights (IPRs) harmonization to project global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410017
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Software piracy, inequality and the poor : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - Poverty and inequality undoubtedly remain substantial challenges to economic and human developments amid growing emphasis on IPRs (with recent advances in ICTs) and good governance. In the first empirical study on the incidence of piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410046
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Harmonizing IPRs on software piracy : empirics of trajectories in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
In the current efforts of harmonizing the standards and enforcement of IPRs protection worldwide, this paper explores software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate short-run disturbances in time-dynamic fashion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410064
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Fighting software piracy : which IPRs laws (treaties) matter in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions in policy decision making. Dynamic panel Generalized Methods of Moments and Two Stage Least Squares are employed. IPRs laws (treaties) are instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410075