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Rajeev K. Goel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Shadow economy and international Software Piracy
Applied Financial Economics, 2012Co-Authors: Rajeev K. Goel, Michael A. NelsonAbstract:This article uses pooled data over the period 2004--2007 on about 100 nations to examine the impact of the shadow economy on the Piracy of computer Software. Results support the main hypothesis that a larger shadow economy leads to higher rates of Software Piracy. This claim is supported by various robustness checks. A 10% increase in the shadow sector increases Software Piracy about 1.4%. In other findings, greater economic prosperity and greater internet diffusion check Piracy, while some legal institutional measures have statistically insignificant effects. Policy implications are discussed.
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Does Software Piracy Affect Economic Growth? Evidence Across Countries
Journal of Policy Modeling, 2012Co-Authors: Antonio Rodríguez Andrés, Rajeev K. GoelAbstract:We examine the effect of Software Piracy on medium term growth using cross-country data over 2000–2007. While the empirical literature has focused on identifying the causes of Software Piracy, our contribution is to examine its effects. Our findings suggest that Software Piracy reduces economic growth over the medium term but the relationship is non-linear – the rate of decrease in economic growth diminishes with Piracy increase. This growth-reducing effect is especially pronounced in low income countries. Policy implications are discussed.
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Corruption and Software Piracy: A Comparative Perspective
Policy & Internet, 2011Co-Authors: Antonio Rodríguez Andrés, Rajeev K. GoelAbstract:This article examines the influence of corruption on Software Piracy across countries. Drawing on a simple theoretical model and a large sample of countries for a recent time period, it addresses three key questions: (i) What are the key determinants of Software Piracy?; (ii) How do nations with different Piracy levels respond differently to factors that affect Piracy, especially corruption?; and (iii) Is there a two-way causality between Software Piracy and corruption? It is demonstrated that corruption levels help explain variations in Software Piracy across countries, with higher levels of corruption correlating with higher levels of Software Piracy. However, the influences of different factors (including democracy, economic prosperity, market size and legal factors as well as corruption) are sensitive to prevailing levels of Piracy, varying across countries with different Piracy rates. Policy implications are discussed; these findings suggest that anti-Piracy initiatives would need to be fine-tuned to country context, such as existing Piracy levels.
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Determinants of Software Piracy: economics, institutions, and technology
Journal of Technology Transfer, 2009Co-Authors: Rajeev K. Goel, Michael A. NelsonAbstract:This paper determines the various influences on Software Piracy using a large sample of countries. In particular, our cross-sectional study estimates the effects of economic, institutional and technical factors on the Piracy of Software. A more comprehensive look at potential determinants of Software Piracy, including economic and non-economic factors, may be considered as the main contribution to a literature that is still in its infancy. Results show that a country’s stage of development and the quality of governance have the largest impact on the incidence of Software Piracy. Greater economic and political freedoms are shown to have opposite effects on Piracy. Further, greater diffusion of the Internet and of computer technologies, other things equal, actually promote the legal use of Software. Higher access prices also reduce Piracy, with the impact of telephone charges being more pronounced than that of Internet access fees. There are significant variations in the impacts of different types of legal institutions and of fractionalization on Piracy. The influence of digital divide between rural and urban areas does not significantly affect the Piracy of Software. Overall, economic, institutional, and technological factors exert important influences on Software Piracy, albeit with some qualitative and quantitative differences. Policy implications are discussed.
Lamia Al-horaibi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Trend of Anti-Software Piracy in Saudi Arabia: An Ethical Point of View
2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing (ICCC), 2015Co-Authors: Arif Bramantoro, Lamia Al-horaibiAbstract:As business world increasingly globalizes, the use of information technology becomes indispensable. Accordingly, the intellectual property right becomes vulnerable to any kinds of violation. This includes Software and apps violation. The violation and Piracy of intellectual property rights of Software and apps influences economical devastation to developing companies and countries. The aim of this study is to present the trend of anti-Software Piracy in Saudi Arabia. It provides an analyses of Software Piracy versus anti-Software Piracy issue based on various ethical theories. Furthermore, we highlight the effects of Software Piracy and to support our arguments, we used a real case study and analysed it in the ethical theories of Kantianism, Act utilitarianism, Rule utilitarianism and Social contract. To provide a comprehensive study, we also analyze the ethical issues of action on fighting Software Piracy, as known as anti-Software Piracy. We analyzed that the arguments for granting anti-Software Piracy should be improved.
V. Srinivasan Chino Rao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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IIT - Social desirability bias in Software Piracy research: Evidence from pilot studies
2016 12th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2016Co-Authors: Marton Gergely, V. Srinivasan Chino RaoAbstract:Social desirability bias (SDB) is the under-or over-reporting of behaviors by a respondent in order to appear more acceptable, or gain the approval of others. The presence of SDB in studies of Software Piracy behavior has been suspected for long. However, few studies have explicitly addressed this issue in detail. In the current article, results from a set of pilot studies are reported. These pilot studies compare Software Piracy behavior in experimental studies to responses of intentions to pirate in paper-based scenarios, under equivalent conditions. The comparisons provide valuable preliminary insights into the understanding of SDB in Software Piracy, and suggest the need to account for SDB research in Software Piracy studies.
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ECIS - SOCIAL DESIRABILITY BIAS IN Software Piracy RESEARCH
2014Co-Authors: Marton Gergely, V. Srinivasan Chino RaoAbstract:Most behavioural aspects of Software Piracy research are a subset of ethical research. Measures of ethical behaviour in research may be subject to biases in response to the social desirability of behaviours. Few studies in the area of Software Piracy have explicitly addressed this issue. Literature on social desirability bias (SDB) reports on three ways to address response bias: approaches to reduce bias, approaches to detect bias, and approaches to correct bias. In the current article, the published methods to reduce, detect, and, correct bias are reviewed. Then, the extent of SDB that may be present in the published Software Piracy literature is subjectively assessed. A study is proposed in which Piracy behaviours involving real money are compared to the intent to pirate in paper-based scenarios, under equivalent conditions. The comparison is argued to be useful in compensating for SDB in future research.
Simplice A. Asongu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global Software Piracy, Technology and Property Rights Institutions
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2020Co-Authors: Simplice A. AsonguAbstract:This study extends the literature on fighting Software Piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate Software Piracy when existing levels of Piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC users) and six IPR mechanisms (constitution, IPR law, main IP laws, WIPO Treaties, bilateral treaties and multilateral treaties) are used in the empirical analysis. The statistical evidence is based on (i) a panel of 99 countries for the period 1994–2010 and (ii) interactive contemporary and non-contemporary quantile regressions. The findings show that the relevance of IPR channels in the fight against Software Piracy is noticeably contingent on the existing levels of technology embodied in the pirated Software. There is a twofold policy interest for involving modern estimation techniques such as interactive quantile regressions. First, it uncovers that the impact of IPR systems on Software Piracy may differ depending on the nature of technologies used. Second, the success of initiatives to combat Software Piracy is contingent on existing levels of the Piracy problem. Therefore, policies should be designed differently across nations with high, intermediate and low levels of Software Piracy.
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fighting Software Piracy some global conditional policy instruments
Journal of Business Ethics, 2018Co-Authors: Simplice A. Asongu, Pritam Singh, Sara Le RouxAbstract: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 over 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 effectiveness of tools against Piracy may consistently decrease or increase simultaneously with the increasing levels of Software Piracy. Hence, blanket policies against Software Piracy are unlikely to succeed unless they are contingent on initial levels of Software Piracy and tailored differently across countries with low, medium and high levels of Software Piracy. Our findings indicate that GDP per capita, research and development expenditure, main intellectual property laws, multilateral treaties, bilateral treaties, World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties, money supply and respect for the rule of law have negative effects on Software Piracy. Equitably distributed wealth reduces Software Piracy, and the tendency not to indulge in Software Piracy because of equitably distributed wealth increases with the increasing Software Piracy levels. Hence, the negative degree of responsiveness of Software Piracy to changes in income levels is an increasing function of Software Piracy. Moreover, the relationships between policy instruments and Software Piracy display various patterns: U-shape, Kuznets-shape, S-shape and negative thresholds. A negative threshold represents negative estimates with the increasing negative magnitude throughout the conditional distributions of Software Piracy. We also discuss the policy implications of our study.
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The Impact of Software Piracy on Inclusive Human Development: Evidence from Africa
International Review of Applied Economics, 2017Co-Authors: Simplice A. Asongu, Antonio Rodríguez AndrésAbstract:The study examines the effect of Software Piracy on inclusive human development in 11 African countries for which Software Piracy data is available for the period 2000-2010. The empirical evidence is based on instrumental variable panel Fixed Effects (FE) and Tobit models in order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity and limited range in the dependent variable. The modeling exercise is based on the inequality adjusted human development (IHDI) and its constituents. The following main findings are established. First, from the FE regressions, Software Piracy consistently improves the IHDI and its constituents. Within this framework, the positive relationship between inclusive human development and Software Piracy is driven by all its constituents. Second, for Tobit regressions, the positive relationship between Software Piracy and inclusive human development is confirmed exclusively in the IHDI and literacy specifications. Within the latter framework, the positive relationship between Software Piracy and inclusive human is driven fundamentally by the literacy rate. Policy implications are discussed.
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Fighting Software Piracy: Some Global Conditional Policy Instruments
Journal of Business Ethics, 2016Co-Authors: Simplice A. Asongu, Pritam Singh, Sara Le RouxAbstract: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 effectiveness of tools against Piracy may consistently decrease or increase simultaneously with increasing levels of Software Piracy. Hence, blanket policies against Software Piracy are unlikely to succeed unless they are contingent on initial levels of Software Piracy and tailored differently across countries with low, medium and high levels of Software Piracy. Our findings indicate that GDP per capita, research and development expenditure, main intellectual property laws, multilateral treaties, bilateral treaties, World Intellectual Property Organisation treaties, money supply and respect of the rule of law have negative effects on Software Piracy. Equitably distributed wealth reduces Software Piracy, and the tendency not to indulge in Software Piracy because of equitably distributed wealth increases with increasing Software Piracy levels. Hence, the negative degree of responsiveness of Software Piracy to changes in income levels is an increasing function of Software Piracy. Moreover the relationships between policy instruments and Software Piracy display various patterns, namely: U-shape, Kuznets-shape, S-shape and negative thresholds. A negative threshold represents negative estimates with increasing negative magnitude throughout the conditional distributions of Software Piracy. We also discuss the policy implications of our study.
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Fighting Software Piracy: Which IPRs Laws Matter in Africa?
International Journal of Institutions and Economies, 2014Co-Authors: Simplice A. AsonguAbstract:The proliferation of technology to produce pirated Software has prompted key questions in policy decision making on how to tackle the situation. The paper will employ Dynamic panel Generalized Methods of Moments and Two Stage Least Squares to address this. IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) laws are instrumented with government quality dynamics to assess their incidence on Software Piracy. In essence, government quality variables are used as instrumental variables in investigating the role of IPRs laws on Software Piracy. The following findings are established. (1) Government institutions are crucial in enforcing IPRs laws in the fight against Software Piracy. (2) Main IP laws enacted by the legislature and Multilateral IP laws are most effective in combating Piracy. (3) IPRs laws, WIPO Treaties and Bilateral Treaties do not have significant negative incidences on Software Piracy. Policy implications are discussed.
Arif Bramantoro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Trend of Anti-Software Piracy in Saudi Arabia: An Ethical Point of View
2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing (ICCC), 2015Co-Authors: Arif Bramantoro, Lamia Al-horaibiAbstract:As business world increasingly globalizes, the use of information technology becomes indispensable. Accordingly, the intellectual property right becomes vulnerable to any kinds of violation. This includes Software and apps violation. The violation and Piracy of intellectual property rights of Software and apps influences economical devastation to developing companies and countries. The aim of this study is to present the trend of anti-Software Piracy in Saudi Arabia. It provides an analyses of Software Piracy versus anti-Software Piracy issue based on various ethical theories. Furthermore, we highlight the effects of Software Piracy and to support our arguments, we used a real case study and analysed it in the ethical theories of Kantianism, Act utilitarianism, Rule utilitarianism and Social contract. To provide a comprehensive study, we also analyze the ethical issues of action on fighting Software Piracy, as known as anti-Software Piracy. We analyzed that the arguments for granting anti-Software Piracy should be improved.
