characteristics of software piracy. The absence of convergence (in absolute and conditional terms) for the World panel indicates that …In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …

We use a 1998-2002 cross-section dataset to analyze the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the record … industry. The results suggest that internet piracy played a significant role in the decline in music sales during the early …

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 …