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The Computer Generation's Willingness to Pay for Originals when Pirates are Present – A CV study
Holm, Håkan J. - 2000
A contingent valuation method is applied to study subjects' willingness to pay for originals when illegal copies are freely available. The subjects consisted of 234 Swedish undergraduate students from the "computer generation". Only 2% of the "normal" (and 0% of the "elite") students were...
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Economic Analysis of Pay-for-delay Settlements and Their Legal Ruling
Gratz, Linda - 2012
In this paper, we ask whether courts should continue to rule settlements in the context of pharmaceutical claims per se legal, when these settlements comprise payments from originator to generic companies, potentially delaying generic entry compared to the underlying litigation. Within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427644
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Digital piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
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 …
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The Analysis of Prison-Prisoner Data Using Cluster-Sample Econometrics: Prison Conditions and Prisoners' Assessments of the Future
Entorf, Horst; Sattarova, Liliya - 2016
The study investigates whether and how strong prison conditions contribute to the perceived propensity to recidivate after controlling for personal characteristics and criminal background. In order to combine different sources of information on personal characteristics of prison inmates and...
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Mandatory Minimum Policy Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants: An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act
Bjerk, David J. - 2016
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) affected the U.S. federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws for to crack cocaine offenders, and represented the first Congressional reform of sentencing laws in over 20 years. A primary goal of this legislation was to lessen the harshness of sentences for...
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Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?
Grabrucker, Katharina; Grimm, Michael - 2016
An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effect of crime on self-employment and business performance using a...
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Legal Uncertainty as a Welfare Enhancing Screen
Lang, Matthias - 2016
Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
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Financing obstacles among euro area firms: Who suffers the most?
Ferrando, Annalisa; Griesshaber, Nicolas - 2011
In this study we investigate the determinants of financing obstacles using survey data on a sample of around 5000 firms from the euro area countries. This completely new survey – started at the end of 2009 - gives us the opportunity to test whether firm characteristics such as size, age,...
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Firms’ financing constraints: do perceptions match the actual situation?
Ferrando, Annalisa; Mulier, Klaas - 2013
This paper uses a non parametric matching procedure to match survey replies to balance sheet information. It draws on the SAFE survey on access to finance for a sample of 11886 firms in the euro area which are matched with their nearest neighbour in an extended dataset with balance sheet...
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