In recent years economic literature has deeply analyzed piracy and copyright violation. Nevertheless most of the contributions focus on the study of digital markets and monopoly. In this paper we concentrate on the effect the entry of a pirate may have in a vertically differentiated duopoly...

The purpose of the current study is to explore various factors influencing managerial decision between cost reduction and product differentiation. A multiple logistic regression model is constructed to determine the likelihood of managerial tendency toward cost reduction or product...