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Supply responses to digital distribution : recorded music and live performances
Mortimer, Julie Holland; Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2010
"Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital products. However, broader illegitimate distribution...
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Copyright Enforcement : Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Luo, Hong - 2016
Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments run by a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456592
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"Selling Out" and the Impact of Music Piracy on Artist Entry
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music revenue without a consequential decline, and perhaps even an increase, in the entry of artists and the supply of high quality music. There have been numerous explanations...
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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy : Evidence from Windows
Athey, Susan - 2013
This paper evaluates the nature, relative incidence and drivers of software piracy. In contrast to prior studies, we analyze data that allows us to measure piracy for a specific product - Windows 7 - which was associated with a significant level of private sector investment. Using anonymized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458908
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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age : Economics and Methodology
Danaher, Brett - 2013
Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of copyright caused by Internet file-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many...
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Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms
Danaher, Brett - 2013
Much debate exists around the impact that illegal file sharing may have on the creative industries. Similarly, opinions differ regarding whether the producers of artistic works should be forced to accept any weakening of intellectual property rights resulting from illegal file sharing, or if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459512
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Does Education Prevent Job Loss During Downturns? Evidence from Exogenous School Assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression discontinuity … for more selective schools in Barbados attain more years of education than those that scored just below (essentially …
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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands
Henry, Peter Blair - 2008
for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter … 1960 to 2002, Barbados' GDP per capita grew roughly three times as fast as Jamaica's. Consequently, the income gap between … Barbados and Jamaica is now almost five times larger than at the time of independence. Since their property rights and legal …
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When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services
Blank, Rebecca M. - 1999
The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by multiple market failures, including informational asymmetries, agency problems, externalities, and distributional concerns. Consumers may care as much or more about quality of...
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
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