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The economic impact of removing geo-blocking restrictions in the EU Digital Single Market

Duch-Brown, Néstor; Martens, Bertin - 2016

This study investigates the welfare impact of lifting geo-blocking restrictions to cross-border e-commerce in the EU, using a dataset for consumer electronics products in ten European countries for the period 2012-2105. We simulated two counterfactual scenarios where geo-blocking is either fully...

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Geo-blocking in Cross-border e-Commerce in the EU Digital Single Market

Cardona, Mélisande - 2016

A cross-border e-commerce Mystery Shopping Survey conducted in 2015, finds that the practice of erecting virtual barriers is still common in cross-border e-commerce within the EU, as it was in 2009. Electrical appliances, electronics and computer games are particularly difficult to buy online...

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Geo-blocking regulation: An assessment of its impact on the EU Digital Single Market

Alaveras, Georgios; Duch-Brown, Néstor; Martens, Bertin - 2020

In February 2018 the EU adopted the Geo-Blocking Regulation that prohibits any attempts to restrict consumer access to e-commerce websites on the basis of their nationality or country of residence. This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of that policy on crossborder e-commerce. We use page view...

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Removing geo-blocking: What are the effects on innovation for vertically differentiated goods?

Hamelmann, Lisa; Klein, Gordon J. - 2017

At present, there is a wide debate on regulating geo-blocking, an online practice that prevents consumers from buying or having access to products and services from another country. This practice is not only used by retailers, but is also of great importance in the market for digital visual...

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Wholesale price discrimination with regulatory asymmetry

Asseyer, Andreas - 2020

This paper studies the welfare effects of wholesale price discrimination between downstream firms operating under different regulatory systems. I model a monopolistic intermediate good market in which production cost differences between downstream firms may be due to regulatory or technological...

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The EU-Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases and the Incentives to Update: An Economic Analysis

Koboldt, Christian - 1996

, establishes a two-tiered system of protection, amending copyright with a sui generis rule that grants protection against unfair …

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An Economist's Guide to Digital Music

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004

In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...

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Purchase, pirate, publicize: The effect of file sharing on album sales

Lee, Jonathan - 2016

This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent era. Using a panel dataset of 2,251 albums' U.S. sales and file sharing downloads on a private network during 2008, I estimate the effect of file sharing on album sales....

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Musik-Downloads: anbieterspezifischer Kopierschutz wettbewerbswidrig

Erber, Georg - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 11, pp. 171-174

Die Inhaber der Rechte an Musikstücken drängen auf einen wirksamen Schutz vor der unberechtigten Nutzung der von ihnen verlegten Titel. Anbieter von Musik-Download-Diensten haben daher Programme entwickelt (Digital Rights Management Systems, DRMS), die unter anderem das Kopieren verhindern...

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The valuation of moral rights: A field experiment

Bechtold, Stefan; Engel, Christoph - 2017

U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

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