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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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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …

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Survival of New Firms in the Brazilian Franchising Segment: An Empirical Study

Facanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente; … - CESifo - 2011

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...

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An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information

Ellison, Sara; Snyder, Christopher M. - CESifo - 2014

We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms’ sales....

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Lost in America: Evidence on Local Sales Taxes from National Panel Data

Agrawal, David - CESifo - 2014

This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...

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Do Slotting Allowances Harm Retail Competition?

Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2006

Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to retailers’ shelf space. Both in the USA and Europe, the use of slotting allowances has attracted attention in the general press as well as among policy makers and economists. One school of thought claims that slotting...

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International Trade and Retailing

Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009

The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...

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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...

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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...

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It is a Theft but not a Crime

Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2007

on Internet downloads and black market purchases of low-quality copies like the most common form. Somewhat paradoxically …

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