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Maritime transport has been historically susceptible to piracy. While broad assessments suggest the impact of modern … piracy causes large economic losses, the literature lacks quantification of the magnitude of the costs and the behavioral …
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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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online piracy. In the past, the discussion mainly focused on the impact of piracy in content industries and the effect of … anti-piracy measures. But little is known about one crucial aspect of piracy: consumers' motivations to use illegal … to fight online piracy. In this paper, we fill this gap by focusing on two main motives for the illegal consumption of …
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-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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are scheduled to conclude by the end of 2009 in Copenhagen. As such, this negotiation is effectively the second round in … parties, the lack of a mechanism to force collective decision making in the negotiation, and their short time frame. The … further complicate the task of bringing the negotiation to conclusion. The major clearage we see that needs to be bridged in …
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We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under the dual ballot, the number of parties is larger but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy is smaller, because their...
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-out and on what conditions the final solution depended. The model allows tracing analytically the dynamics of the negotiation … and interact with political factors, in particular the dynamics of the political negotiation process within the EMU …
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Countries can reduce global emissions by reducing own consumption since they are linked to the total value of consumption world wide. Two effects are at issue: a utility loss from forgone consumption and a utility gain from lowered temperature change. It is thus unclear whether own country...
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