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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development a Study of the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish; Asundi, Jai - 2021
A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …
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Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries
Bate, Roger - 2011
Focusing on 8 drug types on the WHO-approved medicine list, we constructed an original dataset of 899 drug samples from 17 low- and median-income countries and tested them for visual appearance, disintegration, and analyzed their ingredients by chromatography and spectrometry. Fifteen percent of...
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Counterfeiters : Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?
Qian, Yi - 2011
A key concern about counterfeits and weak intellectual property protection is that they may hamper innovation by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130255
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Investigating the Dynamic Effects of Counterfeits with a Random Changepoint Simultaneous Equation Model
Qian, Yi - 2011
Using a unique panel dataset and a new model, this article investigates the dynamic effects of counterfeit sales on authentic-product price dynamics. We propose a Bayesian random-changepoint simultaneous equation model that simultaneously takes into account three important features in empirical...
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An Alternative Framework for Empirically Measuring the Size of Counterfeit Markets
Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - 2012
This paper develops a new method for estimating trends in the size of counterfeit markets. The method draws on principles of microeconomic theory and uses aggregated product-level data to estimate counterfeiting activities in various geographic markets. Using confidential firm unit forecasts and...
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Untangling Searchable and Experiential Quality Responses to Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2014
real-world innovation strategies employed by authentic firms in response to entries by counterfeit entities. In addition …
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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2014
induces incumbent brands to introduce new products. This helps to explain the innovation strategies that authentic firms …
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Foreign Counterfeiting of Status Goods
Grossman, Gene M.; Shapiro, Carl - 2021
We study the positive and normative effects of counterfeiting, i.e.,trademark infringement, in markets where consumers are not deceived by forgeries.The fact that consumers are willing to pay more for counterfeits than for generic merchandise of similar quality suggests that they value the...
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Counterfeit or Substandard? Assessing Price and Non-Price Signals of Drug Quality
Bate, Roger - 2015
Pharmaceutical products can be of poor quality either because they contain zero correct active ingredient (referred to as "counterfeit") or because they contain a non-zero but incorrect amount of the right active ingredient (referred to as "substandard"). While both types of poor-quality drugs...
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's it Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2014
is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent on software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had … software advances than US IT innovation, (b) the innovation performance of Japanese IT firms is increasingly lagging behind …This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using …
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