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Career Concerns As Public Good: The Role of Signaling for Open Source Software Development

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023

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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Career concerns as public good the role of signaling for open source software development

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024

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Piracy in a two-sided software market

Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2013

This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

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Introducing the Bonn Experiment System (BoXS)

Seithe, Mirko - 2012

Computerised experiments play a vital part in the modern economic and social sciences. As the technology advances, more complex and sophisticated experiments become feasible. Fast internet connections are widely available today and mobile devices have become capable of running complex graphical...

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Implications of the Changes in the System of National Accounts for Measured Growth and the Business Cycle

Vanhoudt, Patrick - 2002

The recent changes in the national accounts unequivocally imply that the nature of the measured growth rate and business cycle has changed. This note investigates to what extent.

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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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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

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Gateveys: An R toolbox for re-traceable aggregation of business tendency survey data

Bannert, Matthias - 2013

, the paper suggests a software architecture for use of the package in a scenario with regular, periodical survey waves. …

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Open Versus Closed Platforms

Tåg, Joacim - 2008

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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Efficiency and the Provision of Open Platforms

Tåg, Joacim - 2008

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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