Arora, Ashish; Forman, Chris; Nandkumar, Anand; Telang, … - In: Information Economics and Policy 22 (2010) 2, pp. 164-177
We empirically estimate the effect of competition on vendor patching of software defects by exploiting variation in number of vendors that share a common flaw or common vulnerabilities. We distinguish between two effects: the direct competition effect when vendors in the same market share a...