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Follow the Money : Online Piracy and Self-Regulation in the Advertising Industry

Batikas, Michail - 2018

In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...

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Piracy and Competition

Belleflamme, Paul; Picard, Pierre M. - 2021

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly differentiated, demands are interdependent because the copying technology...

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Vertical Licensing, Input Pricing, and Entry

Bakaouka, Elpiniki - 2017

We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...

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Optimal Cross-Licensing Arrangements : Collusion Versus Entry Deterrence

Choi, Jay Pil - 2018

This paper analyzes optimal cross-licensing arrangements between incumbent firms in the presence of potential entrants. The optimal cross-licensing royalty rate trades off incentives to sustain a collusive outcome vis-a-vis incentives to deter entry with the threat of patent litigation. We show...

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Market Segmentation in Two-Sided Markets : TV Rights for Premier League

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2013

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...

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Introducing an IP Licence Box in Switzerland : Quantifying the Effects

Chatagny, Florian - 2015

, the introduction of a licence box, a substantial reduction in the cantonal profit tax rates and an allowance for excess … reveal that the licence box, combined with the reduction in the cantonal profit tax, limits the outflow of the tax base of … fact that regularly taxed companies also benefit from the licence box render the reform package costly, such that the tax …

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Higher Taxes, More Evasion? Evidence from Border Differentials in TV License Fees

Berger, Melissa M - 2015

This paper studies the evasion of TV license fees in Austria. We exploit border differentials to identify the effect of fees on evasion. Comparing municipalities at the low- and high-fee side of state borders reveals that higher fees trigger significantly more evasion. The central estimate from...

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Sin Licenses Revisited

Haavio, Markus - 2012

We analyze attempts to implement personalized regulation in the form of sin licenses (O'Donoghue and Rabin 2003, 2005, 2007) to correct the distortion in the consumption of a harmful good when consumers suffer from varying degrees of self-control problems. We take into account the possibility...

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Are Ex Ante and Ex Post Licensing Agreements Useful Instruments to Lessen Uncertainty in R&D?

Siebert, Ralph - 2021

In the last decades, technologies became more complex which increased the degree of uncertainty in R&D. To overcome the uncertainty, firms frequently engage in R&D collaborations, e.g., Research Joint Ventures (RJVs), and licensing agreements. While RJVs are well explored in the literature, very...

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Patent Pools, Litigation and Innovation

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2021

This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple conclusion may not hold if we entertain the possibility...

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