Harmonizing IPRs on Software Piracy: Empirics of Trajectories in Africa

In the current efforts of harmonizing the standards and enforcement of IPRs protection worldwide, this paper explores software piracy trajectories and dynamics in Africa. Using a battery of estimation techniques that ignore as well as integrate short-run disturbances in time-dynamic fashion, we answ...

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Main Author: Asongu, Simplice A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2013
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 118, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-60
Further subjects:B panel data
B intellectual property rights
B Software Piracy
B Convergence
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