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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software industry. In this paper we focus on the choice of intellectual property right regimes and industry growth. We begin by developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and...
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Why develop open source software? The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type
Sauer, Robert M. - 2007
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply: non-pecuniary benefits, future expected monetary returns, and open-source licence type. This paper argues that existing large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268441
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Competition and innovation in a technology setting software duopoly
Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Bitzer, Jürgen - 2003
Recently the software industry has experienced fundamental changes in market structure through the entry of open source competitors, e.g. Linux‘s entry into the operating systems market. In a simple model we examine the effects of such a change in market structure from monopoly to duopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276552
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Bug-fixing and code-writing : the private provision of open source software
Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002
Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260804
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Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
Graff, Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018
We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in a highly immersive environment. Implementing a tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984479
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Money for Nothing and your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Differential
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 1999
In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003
for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261655
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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The optimal timing of school tracking
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004
tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261767