There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature … on career concerns,' can explain many of these projects' features. Aspects of the future of open source development …

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … marketing ploy, some of them do proceed to institute more systematic and better-defined processes for software development … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms …

insurance recommendations provided by economic financial planning software and the practical application of traditional … financial planning software. The two software programs are Economic Security Planner (ESPlanner), developed by Economic Security … stylized and 4 of which are actual households. The two software programs recommend dramatically different levels of saving or …

to open source software, an unpriced commodity in the digital economy. The study is the first to follow usage and … upgrading of unpriced software over a long period of time. It finds evidence that software updates mislead analyses of sources … software. We analyze the largest dataset ever compiled on web server use in the United States and link it to disaggregated …

explore the rising spatial concentration of patents and identify an underlying stability in their distribution. Software …. Tech centers also account for a growing share of non-software patents, but the reallocation, by contrast, is entirely from … the five largest population centers in 1980. Non-software patenting is stable for most cities, with anchor tenants like …

software package to facilitate proper power calculations in practice …