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Dynamics of Open Source Movements
Athey, Susan; Ellison, Glenn - CESifo - 2010
competition by commercial firms with OSS projects. Optimal pricing policies again vary: in some cases the commercial firm will set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671701
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Green Tradable Certificates versus Feed-in Tariffs in the Promotion of Renewable Energy Shares
Requate, Till - CESifo - 2014
The paper analyzes the relationship between CO2 mitigation policy and promotion policies designed to deploy renewable energy sources for electricity production (RES-E). If an emission cap is the only policy target, an optimal mix consisting of high and low carbon use of fossil fuels, deployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105365
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Total Instructional Time Exposure and Student Achievement: An Extreme Bounds Analysis Based on German State-Level Variation
Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - CESifo - 2011
Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323302
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Trust, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - CESifo - 2015
&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers’ investment and buyers’ procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194234
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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection
Mosel, Malte - CESifo - 2010
is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572561
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It is a Theft but not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007
Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406063
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Will the U.S. and EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2014
Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781547
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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013
) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to competition policy will soon be the efficient state of the art, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877751
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727287