Software platforms are a critical component of the computer systems, underpinning leading-edge products ranging from … third-generation mobile phones to video games. After describing some key economic features of computer systems and software …

embedded Linux, a type of open source software. Toexplain the observed phenomenon of voluntary revealing, I develop a duopoly …

Software platforms are a critical component of the computer systems underpinning leading– edge products ranging from … third– generation mobile phones to video games. After describing some key economic features of computer systems and software …

Software platforms are a critical component of the computer systems underpinning leading edge products ranging from … third generation mobile phones to video games. After describing some key economic features of computer systems and software …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software …. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased …

During the last two decades, bundling has become a hot topic for Industrial Organization economists, mainly as a result … increased price competition in the market for bundles. Absent bundling, each firm can exploit its limited market power and …. The effect even prevails under a unilateral mixed bundling regime. Furthermore, the welfare effects of bundle pricing have …