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Software Pricing and Copyright : Enforcement Against End-Users

Png, Ivan P. L.; Chen, Yeh-Ning - 2014

The incentive to copy software depends on publishers' price and monitoring strategy. This paper analyzes how a publisher's strategy depends on the penalty for copyright violation and the cost of copying. It shows that changes in price and monitoring have qualitatively different effects on...

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Piracy on the Internet : Accomodate it or Fight it? A Dynamic Approach

Peeters, Ronald; Yang, Michael; Herings, P. Jean-Jacques - 2013

This paper uses a dynamic stochastic model to solve for the optimal pricing policy of the music recording companies in the presence of P2P file-sharing networks eroding their CD sales. We employ a policy iteration algorithm on a discretized state space to numerically compute the optimal price...

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Product Reviews and Competition in Markets for Repeat Purchase Products

Li, Xinxin; Hitt, Lorin M.; Zhang, Z. John - 2012

This paper examines how information provided by online reviews influences firms’ pricing strategy for repeat purchase products. It is commonly understood that online reviews can reduce consumer uncertainty about product characteristics and, therefore, have the potential to increase product...

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Competition Against Peer-to-Peer Networks

Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; Peeters, Ronald; Yang, Michael - 2009

In this paper, we consider the competition of providers of information products against P2P networks that offer illegal versions of the information products. Depending on the generic cost factor of downloading — incorporating factors including, among other things, the degree of legal...

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Cooking Pot Markets : An Economic Model for the Trade in Free Goods and Services on the Internet

Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer - 2015

services on the Internet. Although Netscape's recent move to give away the source code for its browser shows that the corporate …

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How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; McCauley, Jeremy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Combining comprehensive data from the Norwegian media market on newspaper circulation, readership, revenues, factor inputs, and product characteristics with plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet, this paper provides causal evidence on how the...

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Pricing Information Goods with Piracy and Heterogeneous Consumers

Waters, James - 2014

We present an information good pricing model with persistently heterogeneous consumers and a rising marginal propensity for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product launch. We identify a novel trade off in piracy's...

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An Error Cost Approach to Competition Issues in Closed gTLDs

Manne, Geoffrey A.; Szóka, Berin - 2013

Some critics oppose ICANN’s authorization of closed gTLDs, claiming they could be anticompetitive because closed domain registry operators would have monopoly control over generic TLDs of potentially broad appeal. But this misstates competition on the Internet. But closed gTLDs would provide...

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Facilitating Competition in the Cloud

Gleeson, Niamh; Walden, Ian - 2022

In this paper, we analyse the potential application to the cloud computing services sector of EU competition rules … services is a key threshold issue, with complex product and geographic factors to be considered. Further, the interoperability … of technologies and services, and the ease with which users may move from one provider to another, may also be critical …

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Fair Cost Sharing in Telecommunication Industry, a Virtuous Circle

Jeanjean, François - 2022

This article studies the impact of the sharing of traffic costs between an Internet access provider and a content provider, both of which have a monopoly on their market. It shows that when the content provider charges consumers for content, cost sharing triggers a virtuous circle that...

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