This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software …. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased …

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 …

This paper examines the role of software piracy in digital platforms where a platform provider makes a decision of how … much software to produce in-house and how much to outsource from a third-party software provider. Using a vertical … differentiation model, we theoretically investigate how piracy influences the software outsourcing decision. We find that when piracy …

This study examines the complex dynamics of the international software piracy problem by focusing on the size of … revenue losses made from pirated software. Although a considerable number of cross-national studies have focused on software … protection of computer software is prevalent mostly in less developed countries with low-income, ineffective legal systems and …

in the software market, and the effect that these have on the optimal level of protection. A large number of surveys have … been undertaken to analyse the characteristics of software pirates and their incentives to pirate. This paper attempts to …