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The role of institutions within the IPR enforcement : the case of de facto software protection in Egypt
El Bialy, Nora - 2010
institutions lead to inefficient outcomes, while agreeing on a long-term cooperative second best mindset leads to higher welfare … de facto institutions, especially enforcement authorities (prosecutors and judiciary) before signing the agreement and … considered useful when discussing new strategies related to the possibility of establishing binding institutions to enforce IPR. …
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Enforcing IPR through informal institutions: The possible role of religion in fighting software piracy
Elbialy, Nora; Gouda, Moamen - 2011
IPR laws or institutions but might not affect informal institutions, or human morals and behavior, to the same extent …, hence barely affecting piracy situation. The model shows the essential role of informal institutions and its sanction …
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Trade liberalization, absorptive capacity and the protection of intellectual property rights
Ghosh, Arghya; Ishikawa, Jota - 2018
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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2015
The study examines the effect of software piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which software piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for...
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Fighting Software Piracy: Some Global Conditional Policy Instruments
Asongu, Simplice; Singh, Pritam; Roux, Sara Le - 2016
This study examines the efficiency of tools for fighting software piracy in the conditional distributions of software piracy. Our paper examines software piracy in 99 countries for the period 1994-2010, using contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The intuition for modelling...
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Fighting software piracy: which IPRs laws (treaties) matter in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws (treaties) in the fight against software piracy. (2) Main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390799
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Fighting software piracy in Africa: how do legal origins and IPRs protection channels matter?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
common law countries. (4) Formal institutions are instrumental in the fight against software piracy through IPRs protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390803
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Fighting software piracy: which governance tools matter in Africa?
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2012
This article integrates previously missing components of government quality into the governance-piracy nexus in exploring governance mechanisms by which global obligations for the treatment of IPRs are effectively transmitted from international to the national level in the battle against piracy....
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Harmonizing IPRs on Software Piracy: Empirics of Trajectories in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
In the current efforts of harmonizing the standards and enforcement of IPRs protection worldwide, this paper explores software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate short-run disturbances in time-dynamic fashion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390807
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Global dynamic timelines for IPRs harmonization against software piracy
Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2013
This paper employs a recent methodological innovation on intellectual property rights (IPRs) harmonization to project global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on...
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