Prime and Netflix and Advertised-financed VoD like YouTube. Competition policy decisions in such dynamic markets are always … particularly challenging. The German competition authority was presented such a challenge when, at the beginning of the 2010s …

Prime and Netflix and Advertised-financed VoD like YouTube. Competition policy decisions in such dynamic markets are always … particularly challenging. The German competition authority was presented such a challenge when, at the beginning of the 2010s …

pharmaceutical industry between originator and generic firms have been scrutinized critically by competition authorities for delaying … the market entry of generics and therefore harming consumers. In this paper we present a model that analyzes the tradeoff … a policy parameter for determining the optimal additional period for collusion that would maximize consumer welfare and …

offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …. They are faced with artificial demand from consumers who make mistakes when assessing the net value of products on the …

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 …

piracy on inequality in Africa, we examine how a plethora of factors (IPRs laws, education & ICTs and government quality) are … instrumental in the piracy-inequality nexus. Design/methodology/approach - Two-Stage-Least Squares estimation approaches are … applied in which piracy is instrumented with IPRs regimes (treaties), education & ICTs and government quality dynamics …

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 …

legality with that under alternative standards. We find that the rule of per se legality induces maximal collusion among … settling companies. In comparison, the rule of per se illegality entirely prevents collusion and the rule of reason induces … limited collusion when antitrust enforcement is subject to error. Contrary to intuition, limited collusion can be welfare …

An antitrust authority deters collusion using fines and a leniency program. Unlike in most of the earlier literature …, our firms have imperfect cumulative evidence of the collusion. That is, cartel conviction is not automatic if one firm …