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Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 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 - 2003

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...

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Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms : Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations

Belleflamme, Paul - 2018

The rise and success of digital platforms (such as Airbnb, Amazon, Booking, Expedia, Ebay, and Uber) rely, to a large extent, on their ability to address two major issues. First, to effectively facilitate transactions, platforms need to resolve the problem of trust in the implicit or explicit...

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Reassessing Competition Concerns in Electronic Communications Markets

Peitz, Martin - 2014

Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...

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The Economics of Internet Media

Peitz, Martin; Reisinger, Markus - 2014

We survey the economics literature on media as it applies to the Internet. The Internet is an important driver behind … media convergence and connects information and communication technologies. While new Internet media share some properties …-tuned tailoring and targeting of ads based on individual user characteristics are common features on many Internet media and social …

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Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs

Greenstein, Shane; Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso - 2016

The "net neutrality" principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the economic...

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