In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of … piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important … because it enables more targeted policy initiatives. We show that the sensitivity of software piracy to IPRs mechanisms is …

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs …) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology … regressions.The findings show that the relevance of IPR channels in the fight against software piracy is noticeably contingent on …

-grant competition will diminish such efforts. This is just a special case of the more general claim that a market will be more … asserts that this post-grant market should involve little or no competition, and infers from this that patents should be broad …. However, economists have long debated the relationship between competition and innovation. A leading view among contemporary …

Energy products such as power, gas, and oil have long been the world's premier commodities. Consumers demand that power … boutique fuels and power, and allowing energy firms to restrict output and raise prices without fear of competition …. And it offers recommendations for how competition and energy regulators can work together to ensure that energy standards …

competition. The European Commission, in trying to improve the wholesale roaming market, caused the introduction of a system of … non-discriminatory prices that were not subject to competition but instead to low levels of price transparency and with … partners, demonstrating little evidence of competition. Analyses of the wholesale markets by national regulators revealed …

for this hypothesis using the International Maritime Bureau's dataset on piracy. Piracy is reported by ship-owners, giving … show that profitable forms of piracy flourish where on the one hand there is stability and infrastructure, but on the other … of theft from ships the pattern is quadratic: piracy first rises and then falls as governance improves. …

for this hypothesis using the International Maritime Bureau's dataset on piracy. Piracy is reported by ship-owners, giving … show that profitable forms of piracy flourish where on the one hand there is stability and infrastructure, but on the other … of theft from ships the pattern is quadratic: piracy first rises and then falls as governance improves. -- Piracy …

gaps in jurisdiction and adapting their practices when law enforcement becomes more effective. They evolve from ship piracy …