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Digital Piracy: Theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - CESifo - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - CESifo - 2003
with network effects are well-suited for the analysis of software copying while other models incorporating the feature that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094277
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Efficiency and Environmental Impacts of Electricity Restructuring on Coal-Fired Power Plants
Chan, H. Ron; Fell, Harrison; Lange, Ian A.; Li, Shanjun - CESifo - 2013
, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …
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