Determinants of Worldwide Software Piracy Losses

Nicolas Gomes (), Pedro Cerqueira and Luís Alçada-Almeida

No 2013-19, GEMF Working Papers from GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Abstract: This paper studies the determinants of software piracy losses along four major macroeconomic dimensions: Labor force, Technological, Educational and Access to Information using a large dataset available from 1994 to 2010, comprising 109 countries. The results show that, regarding the labor dimension, employment in services has a deterrent effect while labor force with higher education and youth unemployment have positive effects on piracy losses. As for the technological dimension, more patents by residents have a positive effect while the effect of R&D is negative. In terms of the Educational dimension the results obtained show that more spending on education increase the piracy losses but, at the same time, more schooling years have the opposite effect. Finally, regarding the Access to Information, it seems that access to Internet diminishes the losses while the share of Internet broadband subscriptions has no effect.

Keywords: Piracy Losses; Software Piracy; Copyright; System GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C23 C51 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2013-09
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