Is There A Piracy Kuznets Curve?
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Sana El Harbi
Abstract
We investigate empirically the relationship between software piracy and GDP per capita by considering non-linear effects. We use a panel data analysis for 100 countries over a period of 15 years. We remedy several previous econometric and methodological shortcomings and show that piracy follows a Kuznets-like curve. Concretely, piracy first increases with the level of GDP per capita, reaches a maximum, and then decreases at higher levels of income. Making people richer can be the best way to decrease piracy over the long-term horizon. Intellectual property rights holders should not aim for a decrease of piracy per se, but rather a decrease of piracy in those circumstances where it is most likely to be substituted by legal sales. Economic growth can generate by itself incentives to curb piracy.
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- Judicial Review in China: A Positive Political Economy Analysis
- On the Benefits and Costs of Legal Expertise: Adjudication in Ancient Athens
- Beyond the State of Nature: Introducing Social Interactions in the Economic Model of Crime
- Is There A Piracy Kuznets Curve?
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- What Political Science Can Contribute to the Study of Law
- The Origin of Democracy in Athens
