Software Protection and Piracy Focusing on the 2008 Crisis: A Comparative Study and Simulation Modeling Regarding the Case of Greece, Germany, and England

Ioannis Plikas, Nasiopoulos K. Dimitrios, Panagiotis Delis and D. S. Vlachos
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Nasiopoulos K. Dimitrios: University of Peloponnese
D. S. Vlachos: University of Peloponnese

A chapter in Strategic Innovative Marketing, 2017, pp 319-326 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, the relationship between software security and piracy rates is been analyzed, by utilizing an information set for three European nations of extreme importance as regarding the 2008 economic crisis, Greece, Germany, and England. Having undergone thorough research and empirical analysis, taking into consideration Monte Carlo simulation technique we discover proof that research and development impacts negatively piracy rates. We likewise find that piracy rates are affected negatively by per capita income. The above discoveries are supportive to the consideration of different descriptors recommended by the empirical literature on piracy.

Keywords: Piracy; Software protection; Panel data analysis; Simulation modeling; Comparative study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56288-9_42

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