This paper analyzes the impact on a proprietary software (PS) firm's profit of the activities of an open source software (OSS) community and a piracy channel, as well as on welfare. We develop a model in which the PS firm competes by price with both producers and also selects its compatibility...

Abstract Should rights be publicly or privately enforced in the case of digital piracy? The emergence of large-scale anti-piracy laws and the existence of illegal non-monitored channels raise important issues for the design of anti-piracy policies. We study the impact of these demand-side...

In recent years some critiques toward the efficiency of foreign aid have appeared in the economic literature. The allocation of foreign aid toward corrupt governments induces the failure of development policies. Donors have to control the use of aid in order to avoid the risk of kleptocracy. Our...

File-sharing is often depicted as detrimental to traditional commercial activities and tends to dissuade official digital goods’ producers from innovating. Meanwhile, evidence shows that producers are likely to provide complementary hardware goods that are compatible with digital goods...

We study the conditions ruling the diffusion of open source as opposed to proprietary software distributed by a commercial editor. The two types of software differ in relation to their adoption costs and to the range of functionalities they offer. By distinguishing software users according to...

We analyze the impact of the illegal activity on the VoD commercial one, as well as the role of indirect « sampling » in the designing of optimal pricing strategies. For this purpose, we consider the case of TV series with multiple episodes which are set to be adopted in a sequential way. We...

In the case of digital piracy should rights be publicly or privately enforced? The emergence of large-scale anti-piracy laws and the existence of non-monitored illegal channels raise important issues for the design of digital anti-piracy policies. In this paper, we study the impact of these two...

How does the choice to invest in OSS (Open Source Software) of the firm depends upon its market position relative to that of its rival? In this paper, we study how the innovation under OSS regime, i.e. in the presence of open source spillovers is affected by the asymmetry of firms. We focus on...