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Music Piracy: Bad for Record Sales but Good for the iPod?

Leung, Tin Cheuk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Music piracy is a double-edged sword for the music industry. On the one hand, it hurts record sales. On the other hand, it increases sales of its complements. To quantify the effect of music piracy, I construct a unique survey data set and use a Bayesian method to estimate the demand for music...

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Computer Mediated Transactions

Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10

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The Truth in Domain Names Act of 2003 and a Preventative Measure to Combat Typosquatting

Clark, Christopher G. - 2006

This Note analyzes the Truth in Truth in Domain Names Act of 2003, the first piece of legislation to criminalize the registration of a misleading Internet domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity, and the first case successfully prosecuted under the Act, United...

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Determinants of Digital Piracy: A Re-examination of Results

Mandel, Philipp; Suessmuth, Bernd - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 4, pp. 394-413

This paper empirically investigates determinants of digital piracy in Germany for several types of digitized products. To this end we rely on a survey comprising behavior and attitudes at the individual level. The sample matches some demographic characteristics of the German population with...

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What Is the True Loss Due to Piracy? Evidence from Microsoft Office in Hong Kong

Leung, Tin Cheuk - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 1018-1029

Using a unique conjoint data set drawn from 281 college students in Hong Kong, I estimate a random-coefficient discrete choice demand system for Microsoft Office from legal and various illegal sources. Counterfactual results show two things. First, most students would switch to Internet piracy...

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Adapting Smartphones as Learning Technology in a Korean University

Kim, Juseuk; Ilon, Lynn; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2013

Learning class investigated the use of smartphones among Education and Engineering students. Both the process of the class and …-linked university. Their answers to a set of surveys on smartphone use for learning revealed that smartphones were used extensively by … all students. Students had a broad definition of how they used their smartphones for learning. Engineering and Education …

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THE EXPONENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES A COMPLEX PROCESS WHICH IS GENERATING PROGRESS KNOWLEDGE FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE

GREU, Victor - In: Romanian Distribution Committee Magazine 4 (2013) 2, pp. 12-15

The information and communications technologies (ICT) are characterized by an exponential development which is unique in industry and has unprecedented consequencies in the entire society. The papers analysis is focused on the features of this exponential development, which is for decades ruled...

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The willingness to pay for broadband of non-adopters in the U.S.: Estimates from a multi-state survey

Carare, Octavian; McGovern, Chris; Noriega, Raquel; … - In: Information Economics and Policy 30 (2015) C, pp. 19-35

We use data from a large-scale survey of non-adopting households to provide estimates of their willingness to pay for broadband. A large fraction – approximately 2/3 – of the reporting households indicated that they would not consider subscribing to broadband at any price. For the remaining...

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Measuring the Effect of Digital Technology on the Sales of Copyrighted Goods : Evidence from Napster

Hong, Seung-Hyun - 2014

This paper measures the e ect of file sharing on equilibrium record sales. Previous research has su ered from little direct information on who downloaded music and how much their music expenditures changed. This paper uses the introduction of Napster and exploits two household-level data sets. I...

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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond

Tirole, Jean - 2014

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledged, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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