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Evaluating the Role of Income in National Software Piracy
Advances in Business Research
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Evaluating the Role of Income in National Software Piracy
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Kyper, Eric; Lynchburg College
Prante, Gerald; Lynchburg College Schimmoeller, Lee; Lynchburg College |
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Business; Economics; International Business
Software piracy; income; culture |
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| Description |
Our study investigates the proper role of income in predicting national software piracy rates. We run regressions isolating various measures of income, including GDP per capita and median household income and variations thereof, to predict national software piracy rates. Then we also run multivariate regressions incorporating GDP and other non-income predictors such as corruption in a manner consistent with previous studies. This topic is of importance due to the multi-billion dollar losses incurred globally each year due to pirating. Our results show that a square root version of median household income is the best measure of national income and consistent with what economic theory predicts.
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Tarleton State University and the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
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2016-12-31
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Articles Quantitative/Archival |
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application/pdf
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http://journals.sfu.ca/abr/index.php/abr/article/view/132
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Advances in Business Research; Vol 7, No 1 (2016); 51-65
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eng
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http://journals.sfu.ca/abr/index.php/abr/article/view/132/118
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