Publication: Technological Development and Software Piracy
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Romeu, Andrés ; Martínez Sánchez, Francisco
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In this paper, we analyze the differences in piracy rates from one country to another. Like previous papers on the topic, we find that more developed countries have lower incentives for pirating. Unlike previous papers, we find that the piracy rate is positively correlated with the tax burden rate but negatively correlated with the domestic market size and exports over GDP.
We also separate the impacts of education and R&D on piracy, and find two effects with opposite signs. Moreover, we find that those countries with smaller, more efficient bureaucracies are likely to protect intellectual property
more effectively. Finally, we show that the spread of access to the Internet is
negatively correlated with the software piracy rate.
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