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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003
Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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The economics of copyright in the digital age
Peukert, Christian; Windisch, Margaritha - 2023
give special attention to empirical evidence on online copyright enforcement, changes in the supply of works due to digital …. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up with emerging technologies and the interests of creators … economics of copyright in the digital age, with a particular focus on the available empirical evidence. First, we discuss the …
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Follow the money : online piracy and self-regulation in the advertising industry
Batikas, Michail; Claussen, Jörg; Peukert, Christian - 2018
reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third …-party advertising and tracking services associated with a large number of piracy websites and a corresponding set of legitimate "placebo … initiative and reduce their connections with piracy websites. We do not find reductions for other non-advertising services that …
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Payment evasion
Bühler, Stefan; Halbheer, Daniel; Lechner, Michael - 2015
This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...
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Pay what you want as a marketing strategy in monopolistic and competitive markets
Schmidt, Klaus; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - 2014
Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that...
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Magazine subscription and intertemporal discounting : some further evidence
Resende, Marcelo; Ferioli, Eduardo - 2014
The paper's objective is to assess price discrimination in magazine subscriptions in the Brazilian market. Oster and Scott-Morton (2005) had advanced a price discrimination mechanism in which the ratio between subscription and newsstand prices would be positively associated to the extent that a...
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A structural econometric model of price discrimination in the mortgage lending industry
Gary-Bobo, Robert; Larribeau, Sophie - 2002
We propose a model of discrimination in the market for mortgages. The model explains accepted loan applications and determines loan sizes and interest rates simultaneously. A competitive, and a discriminating monopoly version of the model are proposed. Offered interest rates and loan sizes are a...
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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination
Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021
Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...
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Network externalities, dominant value margins, and equilibrium uniqueness
Choi, Jay Pil; Stefanadis, Christodoulos - 2022
We examine tippy network markets that accommodate price discrimination. The analysis shows that when a mild equilibrium refinement, the monotonicity criterion, is adopted, network competition may have a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium regarding the winner's identity; the prevailing brand may...
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Competition in the presence of individual demand uncertainty
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - 2013
This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotellingś model of product differentiation and show that firms offer advance purchase discounts. Consumers choose between an early...
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