Prime and Netflix and Advertised-financed VoD like YouTube. Competition policy decisions in such dynamic markets are always … particularly challenging. The German competition authority was presented such a challenge when, at the beginning of the 2010s …

Prime and Netflix and Advertised-financed VoD like YouTube. Competition policy decisions in such dynamic markets are always … particularly challenging. The German competition authority was presented such a challenge when, at the beginning of the 2010s …

elasticity of piracy indicates that piracy is insensitive to price cuts. The results have implications for the calculation of … damages of piracy. …

This paper investigates the effects of illegal file sharing (piracy) on music and movie sales. The Swedish … file sharing. We investigate the subsequent drop in piracy as approximated by the drop in Swedish Internet traffic and the …

piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach - Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are … applied in which piracy is instrumented with IPRs regimes (treaties), education & ICTs and government quality dynamics …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of … piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important … because it enables more targeted policy initiatives. We show that the sensitivity of software piracy to IPRs mechanisms is …

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs …) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology … regressions.The findings show that the relevance of IPR channels in the fight against software piracy is noticeably contingent on …

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …