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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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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003

with network effects are well-suited for the analysis of software copying while other models incorporating the feature that …

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Technological development and software piracy

Martínez Sánchez, Francisco; Romeu, Andrés - 2018

intellectual property more effectively. Finally, they show that the spread of access to the Internet is negatively correlated with … the software piracy rate. …

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Chapter 11. Innovative Conduct in Computing and Internet Markets

Greenstein, Shane - 2010

How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and Internet markets evolved over the past half-century? In … many of the same economic terms. In the second section, I closely examine the US commercial Internet experience in the 1990 …s. While the peculiar events that led to the invention of the commercial Internet explain some of the salient and unique …

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Technology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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Nonlinear Pricing of Information Goods

Sundararajan, Arun - 2004

This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...

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