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Fashion today is faster than ever and knockoffs more common, but fashion copying is nothing new. For over a century the … fashion industry has bemoaned the ubiquity and ease of copying. Writing in 1916, one industry observer explained the problem … how the fashion industry curiously survives, and even thrives, in the face of extensive copying that IP theory suggests …
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fashion goods. Qualitative data from consumer surveys is used to explain value creation for copied goods and the relationships …
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods under incomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricing and usage-based pricing are feasible, and administering usage-based pricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offering fixed-fee pricing in addition...
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods under incomplete information,when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricing and usage-based pricing are feasible. For ageneral set of customer characteristics, it is shown that in the presence of contract administrationcosts, offering...
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for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product …
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for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product …
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The effects of (private, small-scale) copying on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model a la Mussa-Rosen (1978). When the copying technology involves a marginal cost and no fixed cost, producers act independently. In this simple framework, we...
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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods under incomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricing and usage-based pricing are feasible, and administering usage-based pricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offering fixed-fee pricing in addition...
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This study builds a model which explains how income differences among countries affect differences of software piracy … rate in the presence of network effects. For the model analysis, critical mass and maximum sustainable price, which … indicate respectively the quantity demanded and the price at the maximum of the inverted U-shape demand curve of network good …
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