This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs …) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology … on: (i) a panel of 99 countries for the period 1994-2010 and (ii) interactive contemporary and non-contemporary Quantile …

characteristics of software piracy. The absence of convergence (in absolute and conditional terms) for the World panel indicates that …In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …) protection worldwide. Our empirical exercise is based on 15 different panel regressions, which together consists of 99 countries …

global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental … characteristics of software piracy based on income-levels (high-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income and low … (South Asia, Europe & Central Asia, East Asia & the Pacific, Middle East & North Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean and …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) institutions. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 99 countries for the period 1994 … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important …

With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions in policy decision … making. Dynamic panel Generalized Methods of Moments and Two Stage Least Squares are employed. IPRs laws (treaties) are … instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on software piracy. The following findings are established …

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 distributions contingent on existing levels of software piracy is that the …

autonomous rate of software piracy; consistent with the 'law and property rights' theory. (2) But for IPRs laws, the other IP … protection channels (WIPO treaties, Main IP law and multilateral treaties) reduce the incidence of software piracy. (3) In both … short-run and long-term, IPRs protection channels in civil law countries appear to mitigate software piracy more than in …

This paper examines two dimensions of the software piracy-development nexus to complement existing formal literature … squares is applied on panel of 11 African countries with data for the period 2000-2010. Three main findings are established …: (1) software piracy has a negative incidence on inequality adjusted human development; (2) the unappealing effect of …

software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate … harmonizing IPRs regimes in the battle against software piracy. Three main findings are established. (1) African countries with … low software piracy rates are catching-up their counterparts with higher rates; implying despite existing divergent IPRs …

With the proliferation of technology used to prate software, this paper answers some key questions in policy decision … making. Dynamic panel Generalized Methods of Moments and Two Stage Least Squares are employed. IPRs laws (treaties) are … instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on software piracy. The following findings are established …