Minniti, Antonio; Vergari, Cecilia - In: Information Economics and Policy 22 (2010) 4, pp. 379-390
We analyse how the presence of a (private, small-scale) file-sharing community affects the profitability of producers of digital goods within a spatial duopoly model à la Hotelling (1929). Consumers can download pirated content by joining this file-sharing network. To gain access to the...