Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

software industry shows that the global-local dichotomy in the innovation debate does not suffice to describe their complex …

software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …

literature and software, a unified modeling architecture for distributional GAMs is established that exploits the general … algorithms for complex regression problems, as well as the integration of already existing software, is relatively …

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

as derivatives trading, post-trading services and software sales. This trend can be observed most notably among profit …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …