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Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …
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TSMod is an interactive program which allows the user to estimate a broad range of univariate models. This review describes the possibilities of the package, from a user's perspective and with a secondary focus on the numerical accuracy of the program.
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literature and software, a unified modeling architecture for distributional GAMs is established that exploits the general … algorithms for complex regression problems, as well as the integration of already existing software, is relatively …
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Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …
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Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …
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, the paper suggests a software architecture for use of the package in a scenario with regular, periodical survey waves. …
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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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Private firms may not have efficient incentives to allow third-party producers to access their platform or develop extensions for their products. Based on a two-sided market model, I discuss two reasons for why. First, a private firm may not be able to internalize all benefits from cross-group...
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This paper analyzes the effects of tying arrangements on market competition and social welfare in two-sided markets when economic agents can engage in multi-homing; that is, they can participate in multiple platforms in order to reap maximal network benefits. The model shows that tying induces...
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