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Does Copyright Enforcement Encourage Piracy?
Harbaugh, Rick; Khemka, Rahul - 2000
More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these results do not hold regarding the extent rather than intensity of enforcement. When enforcement is targeted at high-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the...
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Enforcing IPR through informal institutions: The possible role of religion in fighting software piracy
Elbialy, Nora; Gouda, Moamen - 2011
The existence of formal IPR laws can be considered a prerequisite for having efficient law enforcement but does not imply efficient enforcement in itself. A simple model is constructed to explain the interplay between the IPR law and human behavior within counterfeiting countries. It shows how a...
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Copyright Protection in the Digital Single Market
Stähler, Frank; Stähler, Leander - 2022
This paper scrutinizes the effects of the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on platform competition in media markets. Platforms that are Online Content-Sharing Service Providers must have a license agreement with collective management organizations that control the...
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Lagged network externalities and rationing in a software monopoly
Maria, Corrado Di; Köttl, Johannes - 2002
The paper presents a model of a software monopolist who benefits from a lagged network externality arising from … consumers' feedback through the so-called bug-fixing effect. That is, the software producer is able to correct errors in the … software code detected by previous users, improving her products over time. Another feature of the model is that it responds to …
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Die Medienökonomik personalisierter Daten und der Facebook-Fall
Budzinski, Oliver; Grusevaja, Marina - 2017
Im Internet erfreut sich ein Geschäftsmodell erheblicher Beliebtheit, bei welchem den Nut-zern Dienstleistungen oder Inhalte (in traditionellen Geldeinheiten) unentgeltlich zur Verfügung gestellt werden und stattdessen die auf dem Wege der Nutzung durch die Nutzer (bewusst oder unbewusst)...
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Open Versus Closed Platforms
Tåg, Joacim - 2008
This paper studies an industry in which firms can choose to provide open or closed platforms. Open platforms, as opposed to closed, are extendable so third-party producers can develop extensions for them. Building on a two-sided market model, I show that firms might prefer to commit to keeping...
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Geschäftsmodelle und nationale Institutionen: Ein Vergleich britischer und deutscher Neuemissionen aus der IT-Service- und Softwareindustrie 1996-2002
Engelhardt, Lutz - 2005
Der Begriff des Wachstumsunternehmens steht für eine der wichtigsten industriepolitischen Weichenstellungen im Deutschland der 90er Jahre. Um die Innovations- und Wachstumseffekte des typischen Hightech-Unternehmens des Silicon Valleys erschließen zu können, wurde versucht, institutionelle...
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National institutions and high tech industries: A varieties of capitalism perspective on the failure of Germany's Neuer Markt
Vitols, Sigurt; Engelhardt, Lutz - 2005
One of the more prominent recent failures in institutional innovation in Germany was the Neuer Markt (1997-2003), a special segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange designed for high-growth companies. Based in part on insights from the law and economics approach to agency theory, which emphasizes...
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The organisational decomposition of innovation and territorial knowledge dynamics - insights from the German software industry
Strambach, Simone; Klement, Benjamin - 2010
software industry shows that the global-local dichotomy in the innovation debate does not suffice to describe their complex …
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The Characteristics and Value-Added Contributions of Private Investors to Entrepreneurial Software Ventures
Freear, John; Sohl, Jeffrey - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 6 (2001) 1, pp. 84-103
software industry is examined. To provide an understanding of the relationship between the suppliers of capital and the … and the investor characteristics germane to the software industry. Results for the software sector are compared with …
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