piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach – Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are … applied in which piracy is instrumented with IPRs regimes (treaties), education & ICTs and government quality dynamics …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of … piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

In this paper we present an experiment in which we test the effects of sequential entry on the stability of collusion … makes collusion harder to sustain. In this study, we explore to what extent collusion can be upheld with exogenous entry … prior to entry. We find that collusion is indeed easier to sustain in the latter case than in groups starting large. We …

that an alliance between such airlines may facilitate collusion on price and/or service levels in the partners' overlapping …

This paper presents a model of collusion in vertically differentiated industries where firms have the option to make … their products distinguishable to consumers by attaching a brand. We show that if consumers’ preferences are linear in the … quality dimension and their beliefs satisfy a standard refinement, collusion is facilitated in the absence of brands. More …

830 million has harmed consumers by raising cardholder fees and reducing card benefits, without any improvement of …

It is usually believed that higher competition, implying more active firms, benefits consumers. We show that this may … consumers worse-off in the presence of a welfare maximizing tax/subsidy policy. A rise in the number of more cost inefficient …

of voluntary collusion (Cowen 1992, Cowen and Sutter 1999). Playing off this asymmetry, Cowen (1992) advances the novel … argument that the “free market in defense services” favored by anarcho-capitalists is a network industry where collusion is … analysis. Furthermore, libertarians’ joint beliefs on public goods and collusion are, contrary to Cowen and Sutter (1999 …

. It assesses the relationships between software piracy and scientific publications in African countries for which data is …