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 …

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 …

. Findings - The main finding suggests that, software piracy is good for the poor as it has a positive income … role less stringent IPRs regimes play on income-redistribution through software piracy. Collateral benefits include among …

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 … instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on software piracy. The following findings are established …. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws (treaties) in the fight against software piracy. (2) Main …

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 …: (1) software piracy has a negative incidence on inequality adjusted human development; (2) the unappealing effect of …) software piracy increases literacy. Two major policy implications have been retained from the findings. Firstly, adherence to …

. It assesses the relationships between software piracy and scientific publications in African countries for which data is …, less stringent IPRs regimes on scientific-related software (at least in the short-run) will substantially boost … scientific-oriented software should be strengthened in tandem with progress in: scientific and technical publications and …

In this paper, we examine global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of software piracy to ease the benchmarking of …. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate countries into fundamental characteristics of business software … main finding suggest that, a genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against software piracy is most …